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.
[German]Microsoft comes again under pressure in the USA and Germany due to privacy concerns about Windows 10 and Office 365. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a "Fix It Already!" campaign, in which Microsoft also appears with Windows 10. And digital experts from German cities and municipalities are rebelling because of the almost uncontrollable transfer of comprehensive user data from Windows 10 and Office 365 to Microsoft's cloud.
Currently (March 4, 2019, 23:00) there seems to be issues with SharePoint Online from Microsoft. Users have problems accessing data such as lists or libraries of their accounts.
Mozilla's e-mail client Thunderbird 60.5.2 has been pulled, due to a major bug in Windows. Here are a few details, what went downhill and what 'has been pulled' mean.
[German]Adobe ColdFusion users should update to the latest version immediately. Adobe has closed a critical vulnerability that is already being exploited with a security update.
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[German]IoT security experts from BullGuard and Dojo have uncovered a previously unknown vulnerability in the networked video doorbell of the Amazon subsidiary Ring: audio and/or video material was transmitted unencrypted to the ring app and was therefore vulnerable to external attacks. The vulnerability has now been fixed.
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).
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