Links For Today Posted on January 7, 2025 by The Editor Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, January 6, 2025 Ukraine Launches New Offensive In Russia’s Kursk Region Chechen special forces commander sits down with Russian neo-Nazi paramilitary leader for friendly chat to smooth over ethnic tensions Israeli soldier flees Brazil amid investigation into Gaza war crimes EU natural gas storage levels are below average, and Goldman Sachs predicts prices could reach oil-switching levels if the cold weather persists. Taiwan Accuses Chinese Vessel of Sabotaging Undersea Cable After nine years we are left with a country in an affordability crisis where food banks are being used in record numbers (two million people in March 2024) and scurvy, thought banished with 18th century sailors, is affecting malnourished Canadians. Windows 10 still accounts for between one-half and two-thirds of all Windows usage worldwide and in the US, according to admittedly noisy data from sources like Statcounter and the Steam Hardware Survey. Leaving that many Windows PCs potentially unprotected from security threats has the potential to cause big problems, which probably at least partially explains why Microsoft would really like to see lots of upgrades this year. But even if 2025 does become “the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh,” it’s hard to see how it could possibly happen fast enough to get most of those Windows 10 PCs out of circulation.
