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Microsoft Confirms Windows 10 Version 22H2 is The Last
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 Version 22H2 will be the last version of Windows 10. Windows 10 To Receive No More Updates The other day Microsoft announced in a tech community blog post, that the current 22H2 version of Windows 10 will be the final version of the operating…
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Internet Explorer Takes Another Step Closer to Death!
Internet Explorer has been experiencing its death rattle for more than a few years now. And death rattle is an appropriate term as while it has been on the verge of dying for years Microsoft has always seemed a little reluctant to finally pull the plug on its once near-total…
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Microsoft is Upping its Windows 11 Nagware with a New Confusing Pop-Up!
I was a relatively early adopter of the Windows 11 operating system and, despite the huge amount of criticism it has received over the last year (both rightly and wrongly), I’ve never personally had any issues with it. Well, except for the fact that Microsoft now seems to want to…
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Microsoft to End the Sale of Consumer Windows 10 Licenses on Jan 31st!
It’s been confirmed for around a year now that Windows 10 will officially enter its end of life on October 14th 2025. – Yep, put simply, those of you still on the operating system have under two years of security patches and updates left before Microsoft finally decides to put…
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Internet Explorer is Nearly Dead But Microsoft Might Finish the Job on Feb 14th!
Back in the Summer Microsoft officially announced that support for Internet Explorer had concluded and the browser was now officially in its ‘end-of-life’. – Yep, it had certainly been a pretty (well, mostly) solid 27 years worth of performance, but all good things must come to an end, and, in…
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Microsoft Quietly Release Windows 10 Update to “Help” You onto Windows 11 Faster
It’s been just over a year since the release of Windows 11 and so far the operating system has predominantly proven itself to be an utter failure with consumers. – The reasons for this are varied, but it typically comes down to two key points: Firstly, many don’t feel the…
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AMD Firmly Denies that Windows 11 Affects Ryzen 7000 Gaming Performance
Following the release of Windows 11 a little over a year ago, while the operating system has undoubtedly had its share of problems, one of the most consistent subjects when it comes to processors is that AMD Ryzen CPUs supposedly perform notably worse after making the transition from Windows 10.…
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Microsoft Issues Emergency Patch As Windows 10 Update Breaks OneDrive
It’s hardly any secret that the recent 2022 update to Windows 11 has predominantly seemed to cause way more problems than it was supposedly set to solve (click here for more info). In regards to Windows 10, however, with that also recently receiving an update, that one seemed to have…
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Microsoft “PC Manager” Tool Released in Beta for Windows 10 & 11
While Windows 10 and 11 both offer a number of solid tools to help you (hopefully) keep your system in tip-top condition, one of the biggest problems for the more casual user is that they are, typically speaking, fairly well hidden. – Following a Twitter post by user ‘@ALumia_Italia‘, however,…
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Microsoft Sacks Team Whose Job Was to Win General Consumers Back!
Back in 2018, Microsoft announced the launch of its new ‘Modern Life Experiences’ initiative. The object of the program was, in a nutshell, an attempt to win people back to their products and services who may have chosen to transition onto something else. – In basic terms, think along the…
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Microsoft’s Latest Windows 10 Update May Have Broken More Printers than it Fixed
It’s certainly been something of a common theme over the last few years that updates to Windows 10 have often brought with them some pretty annoying problems for printers (as if printers were not annoying enough to begin with!). – With Microsoft finally seeming to get a handle on the…
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Microsoft to Release New Windows Version Every 3 Years? – Windows 12 by 2024?
The adoption rate for Windows 11 has so far proven to be pretty miserable. At best, recent figures suggest that only around 20% of gaming PC consumers had made the transition whereas less than 10% of ‘average’ consumers had yet felt bothered, interested, or compelled to make the ‘upgrade’. –…
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Microsoft Windows 8.1 Users Warned to Start Expecting End-of-Life Nagware!
Getting one elephant out of the room immediately, no, the Windows 8.1 operating system was never popular. – Released at a somewhat awkward time when Microsoft seemed to believe that the future lay in touchscreen products, while 8/8.1 somewhat worked reasonably well with laptops and tablets, for desktop PCs, it…
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10 Handy (and Relatively Obscure) Keyboard Shortcuts You May Not Know!
While it might seem like we lead an exciting life here at eTeknix (which we may do depending on your definition of it) I think it’s a fair summarization to say that the vast majority of what we do work-wise is typing on our keyboards. – We write reviews, scripts,…
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Microsoft to End Windows 10 20H2 Support Next Month!
It’s no secret that the Windows 11 adoption rate has been pretty terrible. In fact, some sources claim that despite it being officially available now for over 6 months now, less than 9% of desktop users have actually bothered to upgrade to it. – The reasons for this are, of…
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