The desktop operating system share and Windows distribution data for end of February 2019 shows: The replacement of Windows 7 till 2020 is becoming difficult. The 'market share' of Windows 7 desktop systems has even increased slightly, while the shares of Windows 10 have declined last month.
[German]Here is a strange observation of a blog reader on Windows Server 2016 systems running as failover clusters (SQL). After the February 2019 updates have been installed, virtual accounts can no longer be registered in the DNS. An error entry with ID 3019* is entered in the event logs.
Microsoft also released a compatibility update KB4489491 for the upgrade to Windows 10 Version 1809 on March 1, 2019. The update can be loaded during installing or recovering Windows 10 and is intended to improve the upgrade experience.
Microsoft has re-released it's Reliability update KB4023057 for Windows 10 (version 1507 till 1803). Details about this cyclically released update can be found in the article Windows 10: Update KB4023057 re-released (02/14/2019).
[German]Mozilla's developers released the e-mail client Thunderbird version 60.5.2 on February 25, 2019. This maintenance update should fix some bugs, but caused users to get a MAPI error when trying to send mail attachments. It is no longer possible to send files via MAPI (possibly from third party applications via mailto).
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[German]On May 31, 2019, Microsoft will turn off all services for the 'Microsoft Band' (fitness tracker) and remove the apps from the stores. Owners will then have a piece of (partially) useless electronic scrap, if they still use the fitness tracker. And after the reset of the tracker it is really dead.
Nvidia released a security update for the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver and issued a Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – February 2019. Within the Security Bulletin: NVIDIA GPU Display Driver – February 2019 Nvidia announded the releas of a software security update for the NVIDIA GPU Display Driver. This update addresses issues that may lead to denial of service, escalation of privileges, code execution, or information disclosure. To protect your system, download and install this software update through NVIDIA Driver Downloads.
[German]Microsoft has released on March 1, 2019, update KB4482887 for Windows 10 Version 1809. Update KB4482887 has been tested in Release Preview ring before (see Windows 10 V1809 Update KB4482887 as Release Preview). Now the final version has been released.
Mozilla's developers released Firefox version 65.0.2 as a browser for Windows, Linux and macOS on February 28, 2019. This is a maintenance update that, according to the release notes, fixes an issue with geolocalization services
[German]In Cisco WebEx Meetings, a new Elevation of Privilege vulnerability was discovered in the Windows app that allows an attacker to execute commands with system privileges.
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