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The latest It Governance coverage — news, analysis, and updates from the WindowsNews.AI desk.
Windows 10 Regains Ground as October 2025 Deadline Looms, ESU Program Provides One-Year Bridge
Windows 10 clawed back nearly three percentage points of desktop usage share in late summer, slashing Windows 11’s lead to a fragile 3–4 points. Fresh StatCounter figures place Windows 11 at...
Microsoft Adds Anthropic's Claude Sonnet to Copilot, Diversifying Office AI Models
Microsoft’s Office suite has long been the bedrock of enterprise productivity, and its AI-powered Copilot features have been virtually synonymous with OpenAI’s models. That is about to change....
Copilot’s Word-to-Slides Feature Saves Hours, But Windows 10’s Oct 2025 Deadline Looms
Microsoft has quietly flipped the switch on a Copilot feature that many PowerPoint users have been craving: the ability to generate a ready-to-edit slide directly from a Word document. For anyone who...
Microsoft’s October 14 Deadline Forces Windows 10 Users to Choose: Upgrade, Pay, or Risk Security
Windows 10 support ends on October 14, 2025. After that date, Microsoft will stop releasing monthly security updates, leaving millions of PCs vulnerable to new exploits unless users take action. For...
Microsoft Plans Copilot Price Cut: Bundling Role-Based AI at $30 Per User
Microsoft is poised to overhaul how it charges businesses for Copilot, scrapping the $20 per-user monthly add-on for role-based AI assistants and folding them directly into its core Microsoft 365...
KB5063878 Forces UAC Prompts on Non-Admins, Triggering MSI Error 1730 Across Enterprise Apps
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), has inadvertently stalled critical enterprise applications for standard users. The patch,...
Windows 10’s Final Countdown: First-Year ESU Tab Could Hit $7.3 Billion, Analyst Warns
The clock is ticking louder than ever. On October 14, 2025, Microsoft will pull the plug on free security updates for Windows 10, leaving millions of business PCs exposed—and billable. An analysis...
Windows 10’s October 2025 End Sparks Heated Debate: Should Microsoft Open Legacy Drivers?
With the clock ticking down to October 14, 2025, millions of Windows 10 PCs are facing an unprecedented crossroads: upgrade to Windows 11, pay for a temporary safety net, or keep running an...
Satya Nadella’s 5 Copilot Prompts: The Executive AI Toolkit Windows & M365 Admins Must Govern
On September 3, 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella went public with the exact five prompts he feeds Copilot daily to run his executive life — and in doing so handed IT departments a crisp, practical...
Windows 11 Enterprise Migration Done Right: Chevron Nigeria’s 12-Week Blueprint
In just 12 weeks, Chevron Nigeria moved more than 3,000 users from Windows 10 to Windows 11, cutting deployment time by 40% compared to earlier rollouts and earning a near-universal 98% user...
Microsoft Promises $3 Billion in Federal Cloud Savings with OneGov, Copilot Free for a Year
Microsoft and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) have finalized a sweeping OneGov agreement that delivers deep discounts on Microsoft cloud services to federal agencies, headlined by 12...
Supercharge Your Classic Outlook with 7 Copilot Tricks — and Avoid These Governance Pitfalls
Microsoft Copilot has quietly woven itself into the classic Outlook desktop client, the very same interface millions of enterprises cling to daily. No forced migration to a new app required. A recent...