[English]Antivirus vendor Symantec has released a patch to fix the update issue on Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2. Distribution is scheduled for August 21, 2019 for various language versions, the English version is said to have already been released. Here is some information on the topic.
Microsoft has released the first beta of the Chromium-based Edge browser for various Windows versions. Users of Windows 7 can now also test this beta of the browser.
[German]Users reinstalling Windows 7 SP1 may get the boot error 0xc0000428. This can be caused by a missing Bitlocker patch. Here is some information about the problem and why it might occur.
[German]Microsoft released a KB4512509 cumulative update for Windows 10 on August 17, 2019. This fixes several issues, including problems running VB6, VBA, and VBscript.
[German]A German blog reader dropped 'a little bomb' within a comment. He claims, that 'Microsoft will no longer support security updates in Windows 10, Flash will be removed from Windows 10'. Here is a look at the current situation.
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[German]Brief information for administrators in corporate environments who manage updates with WSUS. A blog reader told me about a problem he ran into. A bug in the WSUS SHA-2 update prevents certain updates from being downloaded. But there is a workaround if you know the bug.
[German]Another little addendum: The developers of VideoLan have just released the VLC Player version 3.0.8 for Linux, macOS and Windows.
Microsoft has just released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18362.10014 and Build 18362.10015 in the Slow Ring. Both builds belong to the 19H2 development branch, which will lead to a new Windows 10 feature update in a few weeks.
[German]On August 17, 2019, Microsoft Preview released Rollup Updates for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. At the same time, a preview rollup update for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012/ R2 was released.
[German]Microsoft has confirmed an issue (slow start) related to Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10. The issue occurred last Friday due to a server outage, but has been fixed. I took this as an opportunity to compile some information about the topic. Maybe users of IE 11 can provide additional experiences.
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