The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 6.2.1 on March 6, 2019. It is the first maintenance update for the LibreOffice 6.2 development branch (announced in early February). The update is aimed at technically experienced people (early adopters, technology enthusiasts and power users), but is not intended for productive environments with LibreOffice 6.2. (via)
[German]Microsoft introduces Retpoline as protection against Spectre 2 attacks in Windows 10 (Version 1809 and later). So far, however, Retpoline is disabled on Windows 10 clients. Admins of Windows 10 V1809 can already activate the Retpoline Spectre 2 protection manually via registry settings.
Windows 10 is running on 800 million devices. This numer has now been officially announced by Microsoft has made it. Here is a brief look at this figure and what it means.
[German]Microsoft has confirmed performance issues with update KB4482887 for Windows 10 version 1809, released March 1, 2019. These are intended to affect various features in Windows 10.
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Users of the Google Chrome browser should update it to 72.0.3626.121 as soon as possible. The background is that Google has closed a critical vulnerability with the new version, which is now being actively exploited in the wild.
[German]In January 2019, Microsoft released the KB4471389 security update for Exchange Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. On some systems, however, the update causes installation errors, which may render the Exchange Server unusable.
[German]On March 5, 2019 the Mozilla developers have released the email client Thunderbird version 60.5.3. This is a maintenance update which fixes the MAPI problems of version 60.5.2. Here is some information about it.
[German]The telephone directory app Dali, very popular in Saudi Arabia and some Arab countries, is insecure and discloses the entire database of user data to third parties. Security researchers from VPN-Mentor pointed this out to me in an e-mail.
A brief note for users who want to use Microsoft Office 2010 in conjunction with Skype for Business (2016). The Outlook editing options may not work after installing Office 2010. This is due to incorrect installation order of Office and Skype.
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2013 – 2016
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