[German]Microsoft points out in a new post that support for the Adobe Flash Player will generally be discontinued at the end of 2020. Then the Flash Player will be removed from Windows 10. Users should be able to uninstall the Flash Player from autumn 2020, the company announces.
[German]Microsoft has released the update KB4571744 for the Windows 10 May 2020 Update (Version 2004) on September 3, 2020. It is a preview update which is also valid for Windows Server Version 2004.
[German]Microsoft requires registration and use of a Microsoft account (online account) for many activities, but reserves the right to block and deactivate this account immediately. For the person affected, this means 'digital death' and possibly financial loss. This is the first time that a German affected person has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Ireland as a contractual partner.
[German]Administrators using Trend Micro's Apex One, Apex One as a Service (SaaS) and Office Scan XG products as a protection solution on Windows and macOS need to act. The products are vulnerable through four vulnerabilities, but an update is available.
[German]Network equipment supplier Cisco has released an updated version of its video conferencing and messaging application Jabber for Windows. The update addresses four critical vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, Remote Code Execution (RCE). It is sufficient to send specially crafted chat messages, either in group chats or directly to specific users. No user interaction is required and the vulnerability can be exploited even if Cisco Jabber is running in the background.
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[German]A note about update KB4576754, which seems to be distributed on begin of September 2020 on some systems with Windows 10 version 2004. A blog reader asked me about it because he could not find any information about it.
[German]Microsoft released version 0.21.1 of PowerToys a few hours ago as a bug-fix update for Windows 10 users. These tools are free of charge and offer additional features for Windows 10. Additionally the developers are now starting to create something like previews, the 0.22.0-Experimental is here.
[German]Microsoft has released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20206 for Windows Insider in the Dev Channel on September 2, 2020. The announcement was made in the Windows Blog, where the list of fixes and known issues can be found. This time Microsoft has focused on input features.
[German]At the beginning of September 2020, I would like to take a look at the current figures for desktop operating system share as of the end of August 2020. Furthermore, there is a look at the browser shares on the desktop.
[German]The Mozilla developers have released version 80.0.1 of the Firefox browser on September 1, 2020. This is a maintenance update to fix bugs.
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2013 – 2016
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