A little info that recently came to my attention. Microsoft seems to have informed some people that they have found a configuration problem in the Microsoft Cloud Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). This would affect the configuration in the organization of the recipient in question. The "problem in the recipient's Microsoft environment requires a response".
[German]On March 19, 2024, the Mozilla developers released the new Firefox 124 and the maintenance update of Firefox 115.9 ESR. Firefox 124 is a new development branch. Here is a brief overview of the updates in question, including the fixes and new features
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[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.9.0 on March 19, 2024. It is an update that is intended to fix some bugs and vulnerabilities. Continue reading
[German]My understanding was that Microsoft wanted to integrate the Adobe Acrobat PDF engine into the Edge browser instead of its own renderer. I had even assumed that this was already the case. Now a reader informed me at the beginning of March 2024 that this integration had been postponed until summer 2024. After publishing this within my German blog, I also cover it here for my English language readers.
[German]I got a report that Securepoint Antivirus crashed Windows terminal server systems. A german blog reader has two virtual machines affected. Later other German administrators confirmed issues with Securepoint Antivirus, and the vendor has withdrawn the latest "update" of his security software.
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[German]Broadcom President and CEO Hock Tan was still boasting to investors that the license conversion strategy at VMware would see new sales increases every quarter by the end of the year. Now it looks as if it is slowly dawning on those responsible at Broadcom that they have caused massive annoyance among VMware customers with their "crowbar policy" and that the "cash register ringing" by switching licensing to cloud and subscription solutions may not work out quite as well as the business leaders had planned. And a reader has pointed out licensing oddities at VMware to me.
[German]Blog reader Steffen has contacted me by email because he is seeing issues and problem reports from users of Microsoft Outlook in connection with the scheduling wizard. It affects different versions of Outlook and he is wondering whether other readers can observe and confirm this. I'm wondering if it could be related to the updates for Office around March 12, 2024. Here is an overview of the problem.
Google plans to hold its developer conference Google I/O on May 14, 2024, as announced here. The agenda is still largely empty, but there will be over 100 sessions. Neowin.net writes here that Google I/O 2024 will largely be an online-only event. While there will be a "small live audience", most people will have to live stream the keynote as well as the other sessions and panels.
[English]Another brief information: Microsoft has announced the discontinuation of Visual Studio App Center this week. Furthermore, features such as Test Base (Azure) and TLS server authentication certificates with less than 2048 bits were classified as "deprecated" and discontinued for March 2024.
[German]There have been rumors about a Microsoft Office 2024 for some time (see Leak: New Office 2024, new Windows 12 are indirectly confirmed?). Now Microsoft has officially announced Microsoft Office 2024 and Microsoft Office LTSC 2024, and the public preview is coming next month (April 2024).
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