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Black Friday 2025 is shaping up to be a strategic upgrade window for small businesses. With inflation pressure still present and remote/hybrid work models here to stay, investing in robust, future-ready hardware pays off in productivity, security and longevity.

If you’ve been anywhere near LinkedIn this year, you’ve probably noticed the constant drumbeat of news: another tech giant cuts 5,000 jobs… a major cloud vendor “restructures”… a startup that raised $200M in 2022 suddenly slashes half its workforce.

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in 2025 - from Microsoft 365 Copilot to security tools, CRM systems, even accounting software quietly adding automation under the hood. With all this buzz, many small and midsize businesses are asking a new question:

“Should we invest in AI chips or AI-optimized hardware for our business?”

NVIDIA’s skyrocketing GPU prices, new “AI PCs,” and constant headlines about accelerators make it feel like this is something every business should be considering.

In an effort to unseat Google’s browser and search majority, ChatGPT has released their own browser dubbed ChatGPT Atlas.

Many users already jump between browsers, while there Isn’t a published statistic available from surveys on the topic it appears at least 30% of users may switch depending on the task or the device they need to use.

Outages in and of themselves are not unusual (see our report on downtime if you’re curious how common place they are) however back-to-back outages from major players in the global internet space? A bit less common.

Unfortunately, that was the case this week when Microsoft had their own global outage affecting major services, most notably Azure and Entra, however the fallout spread beyond their own direct services to platforms such as Xbox and Minecraft.

On October 20th, 2025, the internet stumbled. Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, suffered a multi-region outage that rippled across websites, apps, and services from streaming platforms to smart-home devices. For several tense hours, thousands of companies and millions of users watched critical systems grind to a halt.

Two weeks ago we reported on Windows 10 going end of life and now the day is here, no one has been more vocal on the topic than Microsoft themselves with the announcement of Windows 10 ending (with no wiggle room) and drawing a hard line in the sand for businesses and consumers alike remaining on the operating system past it’s end of life date (October 14th, 2025) and the news is clear.

Microsoft has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to local accounts for Windows 11, most of the workarounds that allowed users to bypass the need for a Microsoft account as they’re setting up their new computer have been patched in the new Windows 11 test build that was released today.

Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will reach its official End of Life (EOL) on October 14, 2025. After that date, Windows 10 devices will no longer receive security updates, bug fixes, or technical support. For businesses, this isn’t just a technology change, it’s a security and compliance concern that can affect daily operations.

For most businesses, over the years more and more services and utilities have been moved to the cloud and service providers like Microsoft have taken advantage of the growing shift away from on-premises servers to the convenience and standardization that comes with having systems maintained by a third-party provider.