[German]Rumors about successors to current products such as Windows 11 and Microsoft Office 2021 have been around for some time. Now internal Microsoft documents (screenshots of an Office 2024 preview) and posts on X.com are providing fodder for new speculation that both a Windows 12 and an Office 2024 could be released in 2024. There is also speculation about a successor to Windows Server.
[German]Japanese manufacturer Shimano is probably familiar to every cyclist. Now the company has become a victim of Lockbit ransomware. At the very least, the Lockbit group has posted a corresponding publication on its leak page and threatened to publish data from November 5, 2023 if no ransom is paid. The creator has not yet commented on this.
[English]As of November 3, 2023, Microsoft has once again declared three features from Windows as "deprecated" (neowin has noticed this). This means that these functions will no longer be developed and will eventually be removed from Windows 11 (or its successor). In addition to the computer browser driver and service, the WebDAV client and service will probably mean something to some users.
[German]I'm at BlueSky (@etguenni.bsky.social) and I have some spare invite codes for BlueSky (the X/Twitter alternative at bsky.app) to give away 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. Addendum: The post here is closed, for further invites, see this post.
[German]It looks to me as if a software update (OTA update) has been "bricking" Samsung Galaxy A51 series devices since the beginning of November 2023. The devices remain stuck in Odin mode with the message "AVB Fail" during or after the software update. Since two blog readers have already reported being affected, I'll summarize some information in one post.
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Android 14 users of Google Pixel devices have had an unpleasant experience, if they used multiple profiles. One user profile can then no longer be accessed. Google plans to deliver a fix for this bug within 2 weeks (i.e. by mid-November 2023). The bug and notes on the announcement of the fix are described in the article Android 14 bug locks out users with multiple profiles, threat of data loss.
[German]At the beginning of October 2023, Microsoft released its new Teams 2.0 client for macOS and Windows in general – after a beta phase that started in spring 2023. There is still a little time to upgrade missing functions and eliminate bugs. But Microsoft already announced at the beginning of November 2023 that the Teams 2.0 client will be mandatory from April 1, 2024 (no April Fool's joke). Currently some users (German, French etc.) are suffering from translation bugs.
[German]The popular online marketplace for Lego® bricks, Bricklink, is suspected to have been the victim of a cyber attack. The marketplace has currently been taken offline and states "Maintenance in progress" on its homepage. Individual accounts are probably posting messages from the hackers. There is a clear warning on the marketplace page that "Stormtrooper" is not a maintenance guy.
[German]Brief addendum: Microsoft released PowerToys version 0.75 with a new dashboard at the end of October. Hours later, however, the bug fix update to version 0.75.1 had to be pushed out. So the tools for "improving" certain Windows functions continue. Here is an overview of the current status.
Note for people who want to test the latest versions of Windows 11 23H2 without obligation but do not want to install an installation image. Microsoft has released so-called 90-day test versions of Windows 11 (version 2310) for developers as virtual machines on October 30, 2023. These are based on Windows 11 22H2 Enterprise (patch level Sept. 2023, build 22621.2283) and are available for VMware, Hyper-V (Gen2), Virtualbox and Parallels on the Microsoft page Get a Windows 11 development environment. Neowin.net has published some more informationhere.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
