[German]Yesterday I reported the Lenovo Superfish adware 'incident' (Lenovo ships Superfish adware preinstalled on systems). Today it seems that the problem is even wide spread. Komodia SSL certificates and their SSL hijacking sdk are used in more products.
Till now I've quoted Lenovo notebooks as a solid foundation for business purposes. But today this image was badly destroyed – it was uncovered, that Lenovo was shipping Malware/Adware preinstalled on their systems.
It seems that a lot of Windows Vista and Windows 7 users are facing trouble with their sidebar gadgets. The weather gadget fails and reports "Service not available".
Currently we still have VLC 2.1.5 video player (with some security holes). But the team around the Video-LAN project are working on VLC 3.0 video player. And it seems, that version 3.0 will come with Chromecast support.
Microsoft has recently withdrawn update KB2920732 for PowerPoint 2013 (released February 10 2013) due to serious issues. Now this update is re-released.
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Update KB3001652 released and pulled February 10 2015 has been re-released this night. But KB2920732 for PowerPoint 2013 has been pulled – and update KB3013455 has font rendering problems and there is still no solution. Here is a short brush up.
February 2 2015 Microsoft has published several updates for Windows and other software. Unfortunately some of these patches causes damages in Windows. Here is a short overview, what I know so far.
[German]Today (February 2 2015) is Microsoft Patchday – and Update KB3001652 Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime is causing serious issues under Windows 8.1. It does not install and several users reporting a system lockup.
Creating a Windows To Go setup on a USB thumb drive is restricted to Windows Enterprise. But it's possible, to use any version of Windows 8/8.1/10 and convert it to a Windows To Go setup using Rufus. I've tested it with Windows 10 Technical Preview (Build 9926, for Consumers) – works like a champ.
It has been announced a while ago: Microsoft intends to unify Windows App Store and Windows Phone App Store as an "Universal App Store". Now a web version of this unified store is available.
MVP:
2013 – 2016
WIMVP:
2017 – 2020
