Browser add-on Web of Trust (WoT) has been harvesting an selling user's surfing data without anonymising it. After this incident was uncovered, WoT was dropped from Firefox and Google.
[German]Some Windows updates are installed as permanent and doesn't offer an uninstall option. This blog post shows how to force uninstalling such update packages (works from Windows 7 up to Windows 10).
[German]Windows Live Essentials 2012 will be retired at January 10, 2017, because the end of live has been reached.
Microsoft has released on C-patchday (10/18/2016) cumulative updates for several Windows 10 builds. These updates fixes some issues – especially the SCOM bug.
Microsoft has released Preview Quality Rollup KB3192406 for Windows Server 2012 on October 18, 2016.
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[German]Finally Microsoft has removed the ActiceX dependency in Microsoft Update Catalog. So you can use nearly any browser beside Internet Explorer to access Microsoft Update Catalog.
Microsoft has released Preview Quality Rollups KB3192403 (Windows 7) and KB3192404 (Windows 8.1) on October 18, 2016.
Microsoft warns about October 2016 rollup update KB3192392 issued for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2. The rollup package contains a bug that crashes System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) 2012 R2.
[German]Microsoft has introduced Windows as a service in Windows 10, so two or three times within a year, new feature upgrades are available. Upgrades will be installed automatically via Windows Auto-Update. But how to decode install errors, which prevents an upgrade?
Microsoft has released cumulative update KB3194798 on October 11, 2016, for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016. Some users are reporting serious install issues (update hung or will be rolled back).
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
