[German]Microsoft has introduced the "News and interests" feature in Windows 10 (first in version 21H1, later it was backported in 20H2) via update. An icon in the taskbar can be used to display the weather forecast as well as a feed with current headlines from news magazines. Since there are discussions within my German blog, I take up the topic and show how the display can be deactivated, for example.
[German]Acer has just announced four new Chromebook lines, including the industry's first 17-inch Chromebook, the Acer Chromebook 317, all based on the latest technologies and features to meet the needs of consumers, students and business users.
Microsoft's Exchange team has just announced improvements for shared calendars in Outlook for Windows. These should dramatically improve reliability and synchronization latency for shared calendars and delegated calendars across all Outlook clients. The improvements have been available for some time in Outlook on the Web, the new Outlook for Mac and for mobile devices, and now in Outlook for Windows. Right now, about 10% of Outlook for Windows users in the Current Channel with version 2103 have received these improvements. Microsoft plans to gradually expand this rollout through the summer. Details can be found in the Techcommunity article Outlook for Windows Shared Calendar Public Notifications.
[German]I already know why I don't let financial service providers or fintechs access my bank accounts via app. According to media reports, Swedish payment service provider Klarna experienced a serious data protection breach. Users who used the Klarna app were able to view the data and transactions of third-party users for a short time this Thursday morning (May 27, 2021). The provider took the app offline after the data breach became known.
[German]VMware has issued an urgent security warning to users of vSphere. The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a critical vulnerability CVE-2021-21985 that could allow remote code execution due to a lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN Health Check plug-in, which is enabled by default in vCenter Server. A second vulnerability affected VMware Cloud Foundation. Security updates for the affected components are available.
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[English]Exchange Online and Outlook users are just noticing that mails end up in the SPAM folder of the mailbox when delivered. Microsoft is now investigating this Microsoft 365/Office 365 issue.
[German]Google has released Google Chrome 91.0.4472.77 on May 25, 2021. It is a security update that fixes 32 vulnerabilities in older browser versions at once.
[German]Following the preview updates for Windows 10 V1809/1909 (see Windows 10 1809/1909: Preview Updates (May 20, 2021)), Microsoft has released another optional cumulative (preview) update for Windows 10 version 2004, 20H2 and 21H1, as well as their Windows Server counterparts, on 5/25/2021. Here's an overview of this update.
[German]Telegram is a semi-encrypted messaging and chat app, that's is seen as a rival to Whatsapp. Cybercriminals have moved beyond the Dark Web and started using Telegram to share their hacks and reach a wider audience. Private data from millions of people is openly shared in groups with 10,000s of members, and very little is being done to stop this worrying trend.
[German]Since a few days Microsoft has released the Windows 10 May 2021 Update (version 21H1) as a feature update. However, if you want to determine the Windows 10 version via PowerShell or other tools, you run into certain difficulties. The ReleaseID of Windows 10 21H1 returns the value 2009. I happened to come across the corresponding discussion and post this here on the blog for your information.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
