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Windows 10 Support Ends in 5 Months: Australia's Upgrade Path Is Splitting Between Sprint and Stall
Australia’s IT partners are racing against an immovable deadline: October 14, 2025. That’s when Microsoft will stop releasing free security updates for Windows 10, leaving millions of PCs...
Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Bet Divides the IT Industry Into Clear Winners and Losers
Microsoft plans to pour $80 billion into AI-capable data centers in fiscal 2025 alone, a sum that crystallizes the hyperscaler arms race and forces every corner of the IT industry to confront an...
Dell Raises AI Server Outlook to $20 Billion as Windows 10 Upgrade Cycle Extends Well into 2026
Dell Technologies has raised its full-year AI server shipment forecast to a staggering $20 billion, after a record quarter that saw infrastructure sales soar 44%. But while the data-center business...
HP’s AI PC Sales Hit 25% of Mix Ahead of Schedule, Lifting Margins as Windows 11 Refresh Accelerates
HP’s AI PC shipments have surged to over 25% of its personal systems mix, a quarter ahead of internal plans, as the Windows 11 upgrade cycle and higher average selling prices drove a 6% revenue...
TD SYNNEX and AWS Forge Americas-Wide Pact to Fast-Track AI, Cloud Migration for SMBs and ISVs
TD SYNNEX has signed a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services that aims to accelerate cloud migration, artificial intelligence adoption, and AWS Marketplace...
Westcon-Comstor, Microsoft Launch Summit to Convert African Partners into AI and Cloud Solution Builders
An exclusive invite-only partner summit launching August 28 in Johannesburg aims to systematically retool African channel companies for the Microsoft cloud era. Westcon-Comstor, Microsoft’s primary...
India's Enterprise PC Boom: Windows 10 End-of-Life and AI Laptops Spark Record Upgrades
A hard operating-system deadline and the rapid rise of on-device AI are fueling the biggest enterprise PC refresh cycle India has seen since the pandemic. Commercial shipments jumped 9.5%...
Microsoft Scraps Volume Discounts for Online Services, Costs Set to Surge for Enterprise Buyers
Microsoft will eliminate the longstanding waterfall discounts on its online services sold through volume licensing, a move that partners call the biggest change to Enterprise Agreements in more than...
76% of Australian SMEs Have No AI Strategy Despite Rampant Tool Adoption, Decidr Report Reveals
A staggering 92% of Australian small and medium enterprises are already using generative AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, but 76% have no formal AI strategy or roadmap. That chasm between...
Ricoh’s 5-Day AI Bootcamp: Upskilling Over 1,000 Staff to Fuel a Copilot-Powered Services Pivot
Ricoh Asia Pacific has just completed a region-wide, five-day AI upskilling sprint designed to transform more than a thousand of its employees from printer salespeople into Copilot-powered solution...
Westcoast Sees 400,000-Device Upgrade Wave as Windows 10 Support Ends October 14
Westcoast, the UK’s largest IT distributor, is bracing for a hardware refresh blitz. As the October 14, 2025 end-of-support date for Windows 10 approaches, the company projects up to 400,000...
Ingram Micro Q2 Sales Hit $12.8B as Windows 10 End-of-Life Fuels 14% North American Growth
Ingram Micro posted fiscal second-quarter 2025 net sales of $12.8 billion—a 10.9% increase over the prior year—as the looming end of support for Windows 10 accelerated commercial device refreshes...