Game WWE2K20 and the Year 2020 Problem …

[German]Another funny thing about the start of the year – the game developer from Visual Concepts has run into a year 2020 problem. The game WWE2K20 has been finished since October 2019, but has been crashing since we wrote the year 2020.

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Operating system/Windows Market Share (December 2019)

[German]It's early January 2020, and Windows 7 will expire this month. Time to take a look at the current market share of desktop operating systems as of the end of December 2019.

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Python 2.7 has reached end of life

Python 2.7, first introduced on November 3, 2008, reached its long planned support end on January 1, 2020. On pythonclock.org all counters are now set to 0, as the following tweet shows.

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Happy new year 2020

That's what I wish all blog readers that and also health and happiness – and of course no New Year's hangover.

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Office: OCPS Troubleshooting and Template issues

[German]At the end of the year two additional topics for office administrators: One is is about the troubleshooting the Office Client Policy Service (OCPS), and the 2nd is about the problem that templates cannot be displayed in Office 2016.

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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IoT provider Wyze admits data leak

[German]Another addendum from the weekend. The IoT provider Wyze just had to admit a data leak. Nearly 2.4 million user data were stored unprotected on a server on the Internet.

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Windows 10 V1909 and a possible GPO Issue

[German]Windows 10 November 2019 Update (Version 1909), seems to have issues with Group Policy because changes cannot be set reliably. At least a blog reader has made this experience in a test environment.

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Windows 10 Update drops error 0x80070490

[German]Windows 10 users may fascing an updates install error 0x80070490. A blog reader recently pointed out a case for this issues with November and December 2019 cumulative updates and outlined how he could solve this.

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Windows 10 V1909: Explorer Bugs and a Wakeup Flaw

[German]At the end of the year a short look at the Windows 10 November 2019 Update (Version 1909) and its bugs. An Explorer bug is to be fixed 'soon' – and another bug that wakes up machines in energy-saving mode is probably annoying the users, too.

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Acronis True Image: Root cause for Backup settings issue

Amazon[German]Users of Acronis True Image (ATI), who use the product for backup, recently experienced a problem that the software forgot the backup settings. Now Acronis has provided the explanation.

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