A brief information for people downloading the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 10 V1809. This version of ADK no longer includes a Windows PE environment.
Microsoft has replaced the old update KB4456688 with the new security update KB4463110 for Visual Studio 2015 Update 3. Users of VS 2015 should install the new update.
Mozilla's developers have just released version 62.0.3 of Firefox browser for Windows, Linux and macOS. It is a maintenance update which closes bugs and vulnerabilities.
[German]Intel offers the free Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) for tuning its CPUs. However, the tool is as night mare in terms of security and you should keep your hands off it. Here's a quick look under the hood to see what's broken.
Mozilla's developers have updated the email program Thunderbird to version 60.2.1. This is a maintenance update which fixes some problems in the email client.
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On October 3, 2018 Microsoft released the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18252 from branch 19H1 in the Fast and Skip Ahead ring. The announcement was made within the Windows Blog, where you can also find the details as well als known issues.
[German]Microsoft has been rolling out the October 2018 update (version 1809) of Windows 10 worldwide since Tuesday, October 2, 2018. As expected, it was launched a few hours ago at the press event held in New York on October 2, 2018. The major rollout begins at patchday (October 9, 2018).
[German]Within the last days I've seen several blog posts recommending the tool NVTrimmer. The tool is used for customizing Nvidia driver installation packages. If you intend to use this tool, read this blog post to become aware of the risks.
[German]Microsoft released non-security updates for Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 2016 on October 2, 2018. All updates are for the installable MSI version of Office (the click-to-run packages obtain updates through other channels). These non-security updates are documented on this website (deleted) and within the linked KB articles.
[German]In addition to a security update for Adobe's PDF tools (see Adobe Acrobat Security Update (October 2018)), Foxit also released a security update for it's PDF reader.
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2013 – 2016
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