[German]The developers at Mozilla have just announced that they will be giving users of the Firefox browser on Android over 400 extensions by December 14, 2023. This should greatly enhance the Firefox app on Android if the extensions deliver what they promise.
[German]Since a few days now (November 21, 2023), users of Outlook 2019 and 2021 have been complaining that they can no longer send emails via Outlook. Outlook 2019 crashes as soon as "Send from" is selected in the mail client or something is changed there. Microsoft has now published a workaround for this bug and plans to distribute a fix soon. Update: The fix should be available.
[German]The vulnerability CVE-2023-6345 in Google's Chromium browser also affects the Microsoft Edge browser. Microsoft has released an update of the Edge (Chromium) browser in the extended and stable channel on November 29, 2023 to fix the already exploited vulnerability.
[German]Microsoft's Exchange Online experienced a malfunction (EX694090) on November 28, 2023, during which the service was no longer functional. Users were unable to receive emails via Exchange Online. However, Microsoft is trying to resolve the problem by redirecting mail deliveries. The service degradation continued until November 29, 2023, but Microsoft claims to have fixed the problem now.
[German]A quick note for people who may have published content in the Microsoft Technet Wiki or would still like to access it. I have just noticed that Microsoft will probably remove or delete (decommission) this content in the future. This process had already been announced from time to time. But now there is an initial date for the next steps. The Technet and MSDN platforms decommissioning have been on the hit list for years. Here is a brief review and an explanation of what is at stake.
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[German]Google has released updates of the Google Chrome browser in the Stable Channel for Mac, Linux and Windows to version 119.0.6045.199/.200 on November 28, 2023. Version 118.0.5993.15 was released in the Extended Stable Channel. The Android app of the Chrome browser has also been updated. The updates contain security fixes. Here is an overview of these updates. Continue reading
Microsoft has released an update of the Edge (Chromium) browser in the stable channel to 119.0.2151.93 on November 27, 2023. Thanks to the reader for pointing this out. The release notes simply state "Fixed various bugs and performance issues."
I'm at BlueSky (@etguenni.bsky.social) and I have some spare invite codes for BlueSky (the X/Twitter alternative at bsky.app, see also this post) to give away for free to my blog readers. Just leave a comment with a valid email address and why you are interested in the respective form field. I will send the codes in a first in first out order.
[German]The developers of Thunderbird have released another update of the email client to version 115.5.1 on November 27, 2023. It is an update that is intended to fix some bugs.
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[German]ISupport for Windows 10 will end in October 2025; it will not be possible for many existing systems to switch to Windows 11. Recently, there was hope that Microsoft would offer a support extension for Windows 10 (possibly for a fee). However, Microsoft has now dashed this "dream" in a new support article – the announced end of support for "Windows 10, the 'last' Windows", as Microsoft once announced.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
