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How to Upgrade to Windows 11 Without Breaking Your Week

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Windows 10 stopped receiving security updates on 14 October 2025. The machines did not stop working, which is exactly why this keeps getting postponed — nothing visibly broke, so it never becomes this week’s problem.

What follows is how to do the upgrade properly, in the order that wastes the least of your time. It applies whether you have three computers or thirty.

First: find out what you actually have

Before deciding anything, count. Most offices are surprised twice — once by how many machines there are, and once by how many already qualify.

Still on Windows 10? The Cheap Option Expires in October

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Windows 10 stopped receiving security updates on 14 October 2025. That was ten months ago, and a surprising number of Greater Boston offices are still running it on at least some machines.

That is understandable. Nothing visibly broke. The machines still boot, Outlook still opens, staff still work. The cost of not migrating has been zero so far, which is exactly what makes it easy to keep postponing.

There is a deadline in October that makes postponing more expensive, and it is worth understanding before it passes.

Your Printer Disappeared After a Windows Update

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Tuesday-morning version of this call is so consistent we can almost script it. Windows installed updates overnight, someone came in, hit print, and nothing happened. The printer is not offline — it is not there at all. The icon is gone, or it is present and greyed out, or a duplicate appeared with “(Copy 1)” after the name.

Nothing broke physically. The printer sat on the same shelf all night with the same lights on it. What changed is the software layer that connects a computer to it, and there are only about four things that actually happen.