[German]On July 22, 2020, Microsoft not only released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20175. An ISO installation file was also released. In addition, there were load restrictions to install the new build on AMD systems. But this is fixed now.
[German]In the last few days there have been some serious data leaks bruought to my attention, where data became public. For example, 25 GBytes of user data have been leaked from ancestry.com (genealogy). Here's a brief overview of some of these data leaks.
On July 22, 2020, Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20175 (20H2 development branch) for insiders in the Developer Channel (formerly the Fast Ring). The announcement with references to the new features was published in the Windows Blog, where references to this build can be found. The release was required for Windows insiders with PCs containing AMD processors to get this release. This is because these insiders were shown the expiration of the old Insider Preview.
[German]Microsoft has just released a public preview of its Universal Pint solution. Universal Print is a Microsoft 365 service designed to provide users with intuitive and secure printing in the cloud while helping IT reduce time and effort.
Microsoft developers have just updated the MSIX Toolkit to make it compatible with the Windows 10 2004 SDK. The 32- (x86) and 64-bit versions (x64) have been split into separate downloads.
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[German]The developers of the e-mail client Thunderbird released version 78.0.11 on July 22, 2020. This is a maintenance update for the 78 main version of the e-mail client, which corrects some bugs.
[German]As of July 21, 2020 (3rd Tuesday of the month), Microsoft has released several optional cumulative updates for Windows 10 and its Windows Server counterparts. Here is an overview of the packages concerned.
[German]Until now, Microsoft uses it's semi annual Windows 10 feature update as a credo, made in stone. Now there are signs that Microsoft intends to switch to a 'one feature update per year'.
[German]Microsoft is now getting serious and will discontinue support for insecure TLS protocols in Office 365 on October 15, 2020. The step had been announced for a long time, but was postponed again due to coronavirus. Maybe the information is of interest for one or the other administrator in the office environment.
[German]According to a new report from Mary Foley at ZDNet, Microsoft plans a Windows 10X rollout for or single-screen devices in spring 2021. A dual-screen support is planned for spring 2022. And Windows Central reports, that Windows X doesn't come with support for Win32-Apps, only web apps and UWP apps shall be supported.
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