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What’s happened with Microsoft’s February patchday?

[German]Microsoft has stopped the release of all updates on February 2017 patchday (02/14/2017). There are now speculations, about the reason for that decision. Was a compromised Windows Update severs the reason for that?

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Windows Insider Programm for Business (#WIP4Biz) announced

Windows Insider Program is well known and open to all (private users as well as business IT professionals). But Microsoft has announced now Windows Insider Program for Business "WIP for Business" (WIP4Biz).

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Microsoft’s obscure ‘Self Service for Mobile’ Office activation

[German]Microsoft requires a product activation after installing. Users of Microsoft Office currently are facing trouble during telephone activation. After dealing with this issue, I came across another obscure behavior, Microsoft's 'Self Service for Mobile' solution to activate Microsoft Office via … Continue reading

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Flaw in webinar form reveals Microsoft customers names

[German]Microsoft offers Webinars, online courses held via Internet –  that's good. Unfortunately there is a security flaw in a German webinar registration form offered by Microsoft Germany, that reveals the name of Microsoft's customers. And there are "other" stupid things, … Continue reading

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Microsoft Patchday November 8, 2016

Microsoft has released a couple of security updates for Windows at November patchday. Also CVE-2016-7255 reported by Google has been fixed. Here is an overview.

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Microsoft October 2016 Patchday Summary

On October 11, 2016, Microsoft released several security updates for Windows and Office. Also Rollup Updates has been issued for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8.1 (and the related server variants).

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Microsoft: Installing Windows Updates – just trust us …

Many users are complaining about updates released from Microsoft. In an interview, Microsoft's Brad Anderson, Corporate Vice President of Enterprise Client and Mobility, says "Rather than you approving which patches you want, we are saying let them all flow".

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Patchday: Microsoft Office updates September 6, 2016

Microsoft has released a couple of non-security patches at September 6, 2016 for supported Microsoft Office for Windows versions (Office 2010, Office 2013 and Office 2016).  Office 2007 is in extended support and didn't get a non-security patch this time.

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Printing issues with Microsoft Security Patch MS16-098

[German]Microsoft released a security patch MS16-098 on August 9, 2016 for Windows. Since then users facing printing problems – and now Microsoft confirmed this issue, but without a fix. It seems that Microsoft is planning a fix for September 13th … Continue reading

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Microsoft has been “served” by French authorities for Windows 10 privacy failings

[German]I've foreseen this for a while: Microsoft's behavior with Windows 10 collides with EU privacy rules and laws. In Germany consumer organizations has files tiff plains against Microsoft for Windows 10 upgrade and also for data collation. Now French authorities … Continue reading

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