If you’ve been following our coverage for the last few years, you’ll already know that 2025 is the year that Windows 10 died. Technically. “Died,” because Microsoft’s formal end-of-support date came ...

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Leaders often think of software engineering quality as something that slows down development. But when teams build software carefully from the start, they find they have fewer problems to fix later.

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