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BMW kicks subscription for heated seats
[German]U-turn at BMW, when it comes to seat heating as a subscription. Announced as recently as 2020, this option is to disappear in the future. Instead, the car manufacturer wants to focus on other software services. This was announced by … Continue reading
Cisco plans to acquire Splunk monitoring platform for $28 billion
[German]The next big takeover in the IT industry seems to be imminent. The US company Cisco has announced that it wants to take over Splunk. It's a really big deal, which will be done by a cash purchase. No idea … Continue reading
TikTok gets fined 345 million by Irish data protection authority
[German]The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) issued its final decision regarding an investigation into TikTok Technology Limited (TTL) on September 1, 2023. The investigation examined whether the platform had complied with its obligations regarding the processing of children's personal data. … Continue reading
Microsoft introduce the new Outlook for Windows in a video
Margie Clinton, Group Product Manager on the Outlook team, and Robert Novitskey, partner engineering manager for Outlook for Windows have provided an update on the new Outlook for Windows (app) via video. That's according to this Techcommunity post, where the … Continue reading
Attention: Transcription APIs from teams will be chargeable from Sept. 1, 2023 onwards
[German]One more small warning, even if it's currently more likely to affect developers who use Microsoft's cloud stuff via API. There is a preview of the Teams transcription APIs, which can be used to create meeting transcripts and recordings using … Continue reading
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...
Changes to Microsoft 365 and Office 365 due to EU competition concerns
[German]The EU competition investigations underway against Microsoft seem to be having an effect. Suddenly, Redmond is announcing changes to Microsoft 365 and Office 365 to address European competition concerns. These changes will affect our Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites … Continue reading
Windows 11: Default browser to open links for EU users – big trouble about Bing ads
[German]There is currently an uproar in the US media because Microsoft has overdoing it with its ads in Windows 11, which ask users to use Bing.com as a search engine. US media claims that the Microsoft ads behaves like malware … Continue reading
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Windows 11: Microsoft has stopped aggressive Bing change advertising in Chrome
[German]Microsoft tried it again, and rolled out a campgaign of aggressive ads for their Bing search engines to Google Chrome users on Windows 11. Could have been the reason why some people contacted me about the obskure files BGAUpsell.EXE /BGAUpdate.exe … Continue reading
Microsoft AI event on September 21, 2023 in New York
On September 21, 2023, Microsoft will hold an event in New York. I had not addressed the topic here in the blog, but has read first speculations of other media what will be shown at the event.
Edge 116: Mysterious files bgaupdate.exe and bgaupsell.exe
[German]I received reports from users, that the Microsoft Edge browser has been installing the mysterious files bgaupdate.exe and bgaupsell.exe for quite some time. While these were not functional until now, something seems to have changed with Edge 116. Bloat- and … Continue reading
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