[German]Short reminder for Windows 10 users who are still using older versions up to Windows 10 Version 1803. Be prepared that these machines will be upgraded to the Windows 10 May 2019 update. In addition, Windows Update will indicate when a machine is not ready for a feature update.
[German]Microsoft has released in April 2017 Microsoft diagnostic tool called SetupDiag. This is intended to facilitate error analysis if the installation or upgrade of Windows 10 fails.
[German]For the weekend some new from Windows 10 May 2019 update (version 1903). Microsoft wants to speed up the rollout by machine learning, there are updated installation images and the list of show stoppers is still long.
[German]Just a brief information for people who maintain larger system inventories with external hard disks. There seems to be a problem: More and more manufacturers only supply external hard disks with 4K sector size. This could lead to serious issues with backup devices under older operating systems.
[German]On June 20, 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. Addendum: Further updates with Fix for the Event Viewer as well as the special update for IE 11 added.
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[German]Microsoft has released some 'Microsoft Security Update Releases' for Patchday and afterwards. The last one is from yesterday. Here is an overview about serveral security notifications I've received within the last 2 weeks. I've added also a list of current servicing stack updates and an overview about Spectre mitigation.
[German]The BlueKeep vulnerability CVE-2019-0708 is still unpatched in many systems, as new figures show. In addition, the US government warns of unpatched Windows 2000 systems.
Tablet PCs market is rather difficult, people don't buy the stuff anymore. Google has therefore announced to give up its commitment to developing its own Tablet PC models.
Desjardins, Canada's largest credit union and one of the world's biggest banks, announces security breach. An employee has stolen 2.9 million data.
[English]A brief information about C++ runtime libraries and their distribution as redistribution packages with all problems of a side-by-side installation with different versions. Microsoft has responded to criticism in Visual C ++ 2019 Redistributable and uses the same files as for VC++ 2015/2017.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
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