[German]Microsoft is phasing out Internet Explorer in the coming months as the browser drops out of support. As of January 2023, access to OneDrive and SharePoint will no longer be supported.
[German]A brief note to Windows administrators who still rely on Software Restriction Policies (SRP). This security feature has been deprecated since 2020, but is still supported in Windows 10. But Windows 11 version 22H2 will definitely put an end to the use of Software Restriction Policies – App-Locker should be used instead.
[German]McAfee Total Protection had a vulnerability (CVE-2022-43751) that allowed Windows privilege escalation. The cause was the use of the OpenSSL variable OPENSSLDIR. McAfee issued a security alert in late October 2022 pointing out the vulnerability, which has since been closed via update in McAfee Total Protection.
[German]Another information for users who are still running old systems with Windows 10 based on Clover Trail chipsets. The systems are stuck on the Windows 10 Anniversary Update and Microsoft had announced at the time that these machines would receive support until 2023. As a reminder, this support for Clover Trail chipsets expires on January 10, 2023.
[German]Just a note for administrators of Citrix products. How do the recently disclosed Open SSL 3.0 vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 affect security? Citrix has published an advisory on this, which reflects the results of internal investigations. Currently most Citrix products seem not the be affected. (via)
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[German]After speculating about subscription and ad-financed low costs PCs from Microsoft, two annoying stories about that came into my view. An ex-MVP colleague complained about annoying attempts by Microsoft to put Bing as a search engine in Edge. And a blog reader pointed me to an annoying notification about "PC Training" in Windows 20 21H2, but it doesn't work. I picked up these cases in a separate post to show the possible "future of Windows systems".
[German]Reports said that Microsoft is internally working on low-cost PCs (low-cost hardware) financed via subscriptions and advertising. This is supposed to open up new business models, possibly after failing as a counterpart to Chromebooks.
[German]Mac users who used Microsoft Defender for macOS version 101.86.81 experienced problems (hangs) in connection with Teams. In the meantime, the problem seems to have been fixed by updating Defender before macOS.
[German]Microsoft has fixed an issue with the Xbox Game Bar that caused out-of-sync audio output on affected systems in certain situations. There was an upgrade lock to Windows 11 22H2 on these systems. Since the issue has been fixed, Microsoft will remove the upgrade lock on Windows 11 22H2 in mid of November 2022.
[German]After publishing Firefox version 105.0.4 on November 3, 2022, the Mozilla developers still released the 106.0.5 version of the Firefox browser on November 4, 2022 (thanks to the user for pointing it out).
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
