Tag Archives: Office

Microsoft Office: cloud.microsoft is now the start page for web apps (Feb. 2025)

[German]The home pages of the web apps for Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, etc.) can now be accessed via the new domain cloud.microsoft. Microsoft is thus implementing an announcement made in 2023.

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Microsoft Office tries to connect and block aprimocdn.net

[German]Once again a somewhat strange observation from the readership. I have received a report that Microsoft Office has recently been trying to prevent access to the domain aprimocdn.net. It seems to be a security issue, as can be seen from … Continue reading

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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (February 4 and 11, 2025)

[German]On February 11, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Updates were also released for February 4, … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (February 11, 2025)

[German]On February 11, 2025, Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – and for other products. The security updates eliminate 55 vulnerabilities (CVEs), three of which are classified as critical and four as 0-day. Below is … Continue reading

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Microsoft 365: Annoying advertising for Python in Excel —

[German]Microsoft just can't help itself and is forcing its business customers in Microsoft 365 to advertise Python in Excel. An administrator among the blog readers pointed this out to me (thanks for that).

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Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution

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Microsoft Office 2019 und Microsoft Teams Problem (Jan. 2025)

[German]Question to the readership whether anyone has observed problems with Microsoft Office 2019 in conjunction with Microsoft Teams 2.0 after the January 2025 patch day (14.1.2025). Here is an observation from a blog reader.

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Microsoft's Marketing tales: Windows 11 is free for a short time; support for Microsoft 365 app ends in October 2025 for Windows 10

[German]Microsoft reached last week into its marketing bag of tricks again and put some questionable things on the table to promote Windows 11. It says that "Windows 11 is free for a short time". And another joke is unpacked: Microsoft … Continue reading

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Microsoft 365 Personal and Family shipped with Copilot, but hefty price hike

[German]Private users of Microsoft's subscription products can look forward to a hefty price increase for the Microsoft 365 Personal and Family products. This "no-alternative" software is now being enhanced by Microsoft with Copilot, and that costs money. The subscriptions for … Continue reading

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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (January 2025)

[German]On January 14, 2025 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Non-security updates were released on January 7, … Continue reading

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Microsoft Security Update Summary (January 14, 2025)

[German]On the Microsoft Security Update Summary (January 14, 2025), Microsoft released security updates for Windows clients and servers, for Office – as well as for other products. The security updates eliminate 159 vulnerabilities (CVEs), eight of which are classified as … Continue reading

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