Microsoft used its 7 October Windows and Surface event to bring more AI to PCs and take aim at Apple. The Surface Laptop Ultra on Nvidia’s RTX Spark starts at $2,599, Windows now runs coding and open models locally, and Microsoft Execution Containers sandbox AI agents. Here is what was announced, how the prices and benchmark claims compare with the Mac, and what UK businesses should do next.
Microsoft’s Windows and Surface event in San Francisco on 7 October brings Satya Nadella, Pavan Davuluri and Jensen Huang on stage. Here is what is confirmed, what is likely and what is rumour: Surface Laptop Ultra pricing, the RTX Spark chip, local AI agents and execution containers, the Dev Box and Project Zenith, Windows 11 K2 work, the fading Copilot+ brand, and what UK businesses should do now.
Google released the Gemini app for Windows on 10 September 2026, built around an Alt + Space shortcut that opens Gemini over any window. We read Google’s download page, Help Center and Spark support pages alongside Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s shortcut documentation and the first hands-on reviews, and found six claimants on the same keys, three Mac features Windows does not get yet, and a Spark agent Google’s own support page does not list for Windows or offer in the UK.
Windows 10 stopped receiving free security updates on 14 October 2025, and roughly three in ten Windows desktops are still running it. This guide sets out the five endpoint positions available after end of support — paid Extended Security Updates, a standard Windows 11 refresh, a Surface 5G refresh, a Windows 365 Cloud PC, and doing nothing — and the single number that settles each one. It covers what ESU really costs at 61, 122 and 244 US dollars per device across three cumulative years, which Windows 11 protections depend on hardware and cannot be retrofitted at any price, what Surface 5G devices actually exist today and which SKUs carry the cellular option, why a provisioned cellular connection removes an entire attack class rather than detecting it, and how to sequence migration waves so the saving is realised at decommissioning rather than promised at go-live.
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