artpartner-images/Getty Images Amid profound skepticism about generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) in the enterprise — consulting firm Deloitte says projects are struggling to get into production, and research firm Gartner predicts many projects will be abandoned — investment bank Bank of America (BofA) has reported results of a survey of Wall Street stock analysts recently that […] More
Richard Drury/Getty Images While it’s never been a better time to be a successful IT professional in terms of professional gains, recognizing opportunities for career advancement is just the starting point. IT professionals who want to land the top jobs will have to appeal to the senior executives of their respective organizations in new and […] More
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takayib/Getty Images On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop delivering security updates to your Windows 10 PC unless you’re willing to pay an exorbitant price to join the Extended Security Updates program. Also: Microsoft to start charging for Windows 10 updates next year. Here’s how much If you try to upgrade to Windows 11 on […] More
monkeypics/Getty Images When you replace your old but still functional Windows PC with a shiny new model, you have several options for that gently used device. You can give it away to a friend or family member. You can donate it to a charitable organization like Goodwill (which partners with Dell Reconnect). You can even […] More
Business customers will need to pay dearly to stick with Windows 10. A license for the Extended Security Updates (ESU) program is sold as a subscription. For the first year, the cost is $61. For year two, the price doubles, and it doubles again for year three. That Microsoft blog post doesn’t do the math on those, probably because the total is uncomfortably high. A three-year ESU subscription will cost $61 + $122 + $244, for a total of $427 per PC.Also: How to upgrade your ‘incompatible’ Windows 10 PC to Windows 11The program closely resembles what Microsoft offered for Windows 7’s end-of-support date in 2020, although the Windows 10 price is 22% higher than the $350 total cost of that program, which started at $50 for year one.Don’t think you can game the system by jumping into the program after sitting out for a year or two. “ESUs are cumulative,” Microsoft said, and you can’t buy year two unless you’ve already paid for year one.Education customers are getting off much easier. The rules are the same, but the price for the first year is $1. It doubles to $2 in the second year and doubles again to $4 in the third and final year, for a grand total of … $7 per PC.Also: Yes, you can upgrade that old PC to Windows 11, even if Microsoft says no. These readers proved itAdministrators who want to get a head start can sign up for the first year of an ESU license as early as October 2024, one year before the actual end-of-support date.As was the case with Windows 7, Redmond really wants business customers to upgrade to Windows 11, which explains the high price tag. Microsoft’s April announcements talk just as much about what you don’t get with an ESU license as they do about the updates themselves. More
Kerry Wan/ZDNETAt the Meta Connect event earlier this week, Mark Zuckerberg showed off a host of new features on the company’s flagship Meta Ray-Ban smart glasses More
Jason Finn/Getty Images When organizations develop a new product, revamp their supply chains, or want more visibility into their operations, disrupting existing processes and systems to experiment can be daunting, risky, and costly. They can now mitigate these risks with a digital twin, which has emerged as a feasible solution due to the rise of […] More
