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      "title": "Microsoft Earnings Analysis: Pay No Attention to the Capex Behind the AI",
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    {
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    {
      "publisher": "TrendForce",
      "title": "Apple’s Across-the-Board Price Increases Add Uncertainty to Consumer Demand; Global Notebook Shipments Forecast to Decline 13.6% in 2026, Says TrendForce",
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    {
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      "publisher": "TweakTown",
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    {
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      "title": "R.I.P. Windows 10, and hundreds of millions of PCs that depended on it",
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    {
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      "title": "Getting your organisation ready for Windows 11 upgrade before Autumn 2025 (NCSC blog, Josh D, 14 July 2025)",
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      "title": "The Global E-waste Monitor 2024 (ITU and UNITAR)",
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    {
      "publisher": "US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency",
      "title": "Bad Practices (CISA, 1 February 2021; archived content)",
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    {
      "publisher": "US Environmental Protection Agency",
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      "access": "open"
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    {
      "publisher": "US Environmental Protection Agency",
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    {
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    {
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    {
      "publisher": "Windows Central (Zac Bowden)",
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    {
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      "access": "open"
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    {
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      "publisher": "Windows Report",
      "title": "Millions of Business PCs to Miss Windows 11 Upgrade Deadline, Analysts Warn",
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    {
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      "title": "Valve's Steam Survey: Windows 11 Still Leading, Windows 10 Holding Its Ground",
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      "accessed": "2026-10-12",
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    {
      "publisher": "Windows Report",
      "title": "Windows 11 Market Share Explodes to 72.78% in February 2026, Leaving Windows 10 at 26.27%",
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    {
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      "accessed": "2026-10-12",
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    {
      "publisher": "ZDNET (Ed Bott)",
      "title": "400 million Windows PCs vanished in 3 years. Where did they all go?",
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