Last January at CES, Microsoft chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2024 the “year of the AI PC.” And whether you believe that prediction came true or not—many new PCs come with AI-accelerating neural processing units onboard, but far from all of them—you can't deny that Microsoft did try very hard to make it happen.

Now that Microsoft's "year of the AI PC," – or 2024, as it's better known – is over, the company has declared that 2025 really should

Microsoft is making a full court press to get the hundreds of millions of users still running Windows 10 to pick up a new Copilot+ PC with Windows 11.

Yusuf Mehdi, Executive Vice President and Consumer Chief Marketing Officer at Microsoft, confirmed at CES that Windows 10 will reach its end of life in October 2025 as initially planned, as reported by Windows Latest.