Category Archives: General

instagramdown: Instagramm is down – worldwide

The Instagram platform, which belongs to Facebook and on which people can post photos, is currently unavailable worldwide. Something serious must have happened.

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Microsoft closes Mixed Reality Studio in Berlin

It was just a short episode that Microsoft did there in Berlin. The Mixed Reality Studio in Berlin is closed after 2 1/2 years, 10 employees have to look for a new job.

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Copyright take down for Microsoft Youtube video

Gotcha: That went pretty stupid. Microsoft uploaded a video with a presentation to YouTube. And suddenly the video was blocked because of suspected copyright violation.

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Microsoft restores deleted Technet- and MSDN-Blogs

[German]After massive protests, Microsoft seems to be rethinking and trying to restore the blog posts that were deleted on Technet and MSDN during the hiring of employee blogs.

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Bye, bye Google+

The social network Google+ has been history since yesterday, when public user accounts were deleted on April 2, 2019. The end of a short excursion in which Google wanted to compete with Facebook.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Google I/O will be held from May 7, till 9, 2019

Google holds a developer conference once a year, the Google I/O. Traditionally, this takes place in May. Now the date for 2019 has been announced.

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Finnish Consumer Disputes Board: Microsoft has to compensate for “Forced upgrade to Windows 10”

[German]The Finnish Consumer Disputes Board decided, that Microsoft had no contractual right to install a new operating system without asking for permission. Microsoft has to compensate Windows 10 "Forced Installation" damage to consumer.

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Happy New Year 2019

(Source: Pexels/Pixabay CC0 License)

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Merry Christmas…

to all of my blog readers.

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#FacebookDown: Worldwide issues

Currently it seems that Facebook (and its services like Instagram) are being disturbed worldwide. According to various reports, Twitter is probably also affected, although I can't see any issue at the moment.

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