On March 4, 2020, Microsoft released PowerShell version 7.0.0 with some new features. On GitHub, Microsoft lists the changes in the release notes. On the GitHub page, you can also download it for different platforms (Linux, macOS, Windows).
[German]UK security vendor Sophos has been (finally) acquired by US private equity investor group Thomas Bravo for the price of $3.9 billion. That has been announced recently.
[German]Microsoft released version 0.15.0 of PowerToys for Windows 10 users a few hours ago. It is a maintenance update that fixes bugs and improves compatibility & quality. Addendum: Nothing is old as the yesterday's newspaper. Five hours after release, whe have version 0.15.1 with a bug fix – and a new crash.
[German]On March 2, 2020 (first Tuesday of the month, Office Patchday), Microsoft released several non-security updates for versions of Microsoft Office (this time only for Office 2016 and Skype for Business 2013) that are still supported.
[German]A brief message at the end of the day here in German: Let's encrypt had found a bug in the process of issuing certificates. So they now have to withdraw 3 million issued TLS certificates.
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[German]Another short message for IT service providers and people who need licenses for Symantec security products. After Broadcom's acquisition of Symantec, things are likely to go haywire and distributors will not be able to issue new licenses.
[German]Windows 10 users are already facing many issues. Now there's another blunder: On some mainboards a year 3000 bug strikes when the BIOS has a certain date. Then the operating system can no longer be installed.
[German]There are massive issues with security update KB4537821 and preview rollup update KB4537819. Users of Windows 8.1, but especially administrators of Windows Server 2012 R2 and Terminal Server are hidden by a temporary user profile after user logs in after the update installation.
[German]Nice surprise for people living in London (GB). There are taxis driving around with advertisements on the roof. The display boards are controlled by Windows – and there are nice Blue Screens of Dead, with which the taxis advertise the product from Redmond.
[German]Microsoft released the cumulative update KB4535996 for Windows 10 version 1903 and 1909 on February 27, 2020. But some users are facing serious issues with this optional update.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
