[German]Short addendum from the last few days. Both Google had to provide the Chrome browser and Microsoft had to provide the Chromium-based Edge browser with an urgent security update. This is due to security vulnerabilities that have probably been exploited by threat actors in the wild. I have also received two reader reports about problems when switching to the new Chrome/Edge 137. Here is a brief summary of these issues.
[German]Microsoft is currently intensively courting the European market in order to retain customers in the government sector. To this end, Redmond has announced a European Security Program. This new initiative is designed to strengthen cyber security across Europe and is available to all European governments free of charge.
[German]I'm adding an information that I came across a few days ago. Anyone using apps or services from Meta (Facebook & Co.) or Yandex (Russian, less common in DACH) on Android was tracked. Security researchers have discovered that tracking pixels bypass the sandbox isolation in the browser and transmit users' personal data to apps and service servers. Meta has discontinued this tracking mechanism as of June 3, 2025 after it was discovered.
[German]Brief news that I came across last Sunday. VMware by Broadcom is shaving its partner program for the distribution of its products. The lowest level of the partner program is to be dropped – although this step does not apply to Europe.
[German]On April 2025 Patchday, there was confusion under Windows 10/11 about a folder "inetpub" that had been created. Some users deleted this folder, although Microsoft requires it. Microsoft has now released a "repair" script that restores this folder on the Windows system partition.
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[German]It's June 2025 and Statcounter's figures on operating system distribution on the desktop are available again for the end of May 2025. Since Windows 10 will no longer be supported in October 2025, Windows 11 is the only option for many users. But it looks like Windows 11 has not been able to make up any ground in the last two months.
[German]Question: Has anyone observed issues with Windows 11 that are related to Intel driver updates? A blog reader has pointed out errors with an XMG Neo 17 E24 notebook.
[German]A blog reader contacted me with a crude observation. In his customer environment, there is a case with Office 2019 in which emails sent by Power Automate cause the recipient's Outlook client to crash. Is this an isolated case or are there more people affected?
[German]A quick call to the blog readership to see if anyone has any more information on this. I have received information that there was a successful cyber attack on the H World hotel group. This would presumably also affect Steigenberger. However, I have not yet been able to find any other sources.
[German]I'm posting another newsflash here: The Microsoft subsidiary in Russia has filed for insolvency. The reason seems to be a lawsuit filed by a Russian bank against Microsoft Rus LLC, which ended with a penalty payment claim of approx. 1 million euros.
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