BrooklynEagle – By Brooklyn Eagle Staff | Published July 7, 2025

BOROUGHWIDE — TWO BROOKLYN CITY COUNCILMEMBERS HAVE TEAMED UP ON A SOLUTION TO THE UPCOMING EXPIRATION OF MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 support and the e-waste that is expected to result from it. 

Councilmembers Shahana Hanif (D-39) and Jennifer Gutiérrez (D-34) on Monday, July 7, are sponsoring the Brooklyn Laptop Fix-a-thon to reduce e-waste and support local literacy programs. 

During the event, being held at Brooklyn Spark Makerspace, on Stewart Ave.  in East Williamsburg, volunteers will refurbish 45 old laptops donated by constituents and collected throughout June in District 39. These laptop computers will then be used for local digital literacy programs in Districts 39 and 34, helping bridge the digital divide and reduce tech waste in landfills. 

Along with 60 refurbished laptops that TechFIN has donated, more than 100 devices will be distributed to serve residents in these two Council Districts. 

The termination of Windows 10 support, in October of this year, means that PC owners will need to upgrade to Windows 11 to continue receiving security and other updates. This could render many older PCs with hardware unable to upgrade to Windows 11 obsolete, leading to significant e-waste – up to 400 million machines worldwide, according to the Public Interest Research Group. This includes a significant number of computers at large companies that are still running Windows 10.

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