Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, died of cancer on Monday, October 15, 2018, at the age of 65, according to CNBC. Born in 1953, Allen left Microsoft as early as 1983 after being diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma. This cancer were now also the cause of his death.
Microsoft has stopped the development of the Win32 version of OneNote and offers only a Windows 10 app with reduced functions. But this is supposed to change 'soon', the OneNote app has big plans.
[German]Microsoft has responded quickly to audio issues that occurred under various Windows 10 builds after the October 2018 patchday. Update KB4468550, released on October 13, 2018, fixes these audio issues
[German]Confusion for users of Windows 10 Mobile devices. Support for Windows 10 Mobile V1607 has been ended on October 9, 2018. But, according to a Microsoft post from Friday October 12, 2018, the End of Life is announced for October 9, 2019. I saw it in the RSS feed as a Microsoft announcement on October 12, 2018. But it should be a typo.
Success for Apple and its recently released iOS 12, which runs on just one in two iOS devices a month after release, Apple just announced.
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[German]Vendors using Linux-Servers intends to move away from proprietary hardware with UEFI, Intel ME & Co. The free LinuxBoot is the answer to the UEFI glue of the commercial manufacturers, but is limited to the server area. Here is some information about LinuxBoot.
[German]In October 2018, Microsoft patched some vulnerabilities in Windows with updates. The vulnerability CVE-2018-8495 is now being actively exploited. For the (probably incompletely patched) vulnerability CVE-2018-8495 a Proof-of-Concept (PoC) is now available. And the vulnerability CVE-2018-8423 was probably patched. Here is some information.
Users of Tinder, Shopify, Yelp and others are threatened in their security. Security researchers at vpnMentor have discovered a DOM-XSS bug that allows them to extract information about other users via apps or websites concerned. Potentially 685 million users are affected by this vulnerability.
[German]When installing updates via Windows Update, some systems ends with update installation error 0x8024200D. This error code may occur on Windows 7 up to Windows 10. Within this blog post, I discuss the error details, and how to fix it.
[German]The cumulative updates KB4464330 (for Windows 10 V1809) and KB4462919 (for Windows 10 V1803) for October 2018 cause certain machines, previously from HP and Dell, to throw a 'WDF Violation' BlueScreen.
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