A public display with an error message is embarassing, both for its owner and for the OS it runs on, and Microsoft has had enough of it.
Microsoft will now offer Digital Signage mode which will optionally turn of a blue screen of death display after 15 seconds.
Congratulations, symptom fight won!
Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) are internal Servers that receive softwate updates from Microsoft and distribute these to systems throughout the company.
If these severs (version 2012 and up) are accessible from the internet on their default TCP ports, 8530 (HTTP) and 8531 (HTTPS), they can be exploited. A proof of concept of the attack is available since October 21. Internet servers are currently being actively scanned and exploited by automated hacking scanners.
Over the past month, Microsoft did 2 attempts to patch the vulnerability, but did not succeed: exploits can work around the changes made by microsoft.
Given that WSUS is an internal software distribution system, it has the potential of distributing malicious code to internal machines.
Pasting rich text to MS OneNote from some applications (like JetBrains IntelliJ) loses all spaces.
Update: This issue has been solved (11/2024). Don't know if I should thank JetBrains or Microsoft.
Example:
background:#ffff99url('../images/cat.jpg')no-repeatfixedcentercenter;
You can of course choose to paste text only (CTRL + SHIFT +V), which will keep spaces, but loose formatting :-/
Example:
background: #ffff99 url('../images/cat.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center;
Install the OneMore OneNote plugin.Now you can past with CTRL + ALT + V, to get what you want:
background: #ffff99 url('../images/cat.jpg') no-repeat fixed center center;
With the plugin you get a slew of other handy One Note functions like Find and Replace (!), modifying tables...
In a new Microsoft Cybersecurity Scholarship Program, the company will offer free cybersecurity courses to US community colleges, to help solve the shortage of security engineers in the US. The program is not available outside the US.
The program builds on the Microsoft Skills for Jobs global initiative. The initiative offers free access to a set of LinkedIn courses and reduced cost Microsoft Certifications. It also offers grants to non profit organisations, but none of the organisations mentioned are in Europe.
When sharing content in Microsoft Teams, the pane to choose the screen/window to share has now moved to the right (was bottom), on my version (1.4.00.1116).
In the pane a new option PowerPoint Live has been added.
Great addition, and more features are coming. Here's a Microsoft article on this, but take care: all features discussed have not been rolled out yet at the time of this writing.
Most annoying problem is that it does not remember which presentations you loaded from your local machine, so you have to reload them every time you leave the presentation to share your screen.
Recently Microsoft got into open source code distribution by acquiring widely used open source distribution sites like github and npm.
Its stance with respect to open software has changed remarkably over the last years.
But the risks of Microsoft's influence in this market become clear now: it has removed proof of concept code that showed weaknesses in Microsoft Exchange mail servers.
Although the code is still available from other Open Source repositories like GitLab, this shows the willingness and capability of Microsoft to control the distribution of Open Source Software.
Cloud CRM juggernaut Salesforce has gobbled up the Slack team collaboration platform for $28bn.
Although Slack was still growing at a healthy pace, it was bypassed by MS Teams last year.
With the backing of Salesforce, Slack will be have the means to strike back.
A Salesforce MVP (Most Valuable Professional) :
There is still no compelling reason to use Slack over Chatter. You still should NOT share your corporate data out to any external system, even Teams.
They're already convinced it's better than Teams. But why did day cash out all that money if they've got something better in house?
EDPS (the European Data Protection Supervisor) warns member states against using Microsoft software, because privacy of data is not guaranteed. In this EDPS is following an earlier recommendation by the dutch government.
A report by Privacy Company, commissioned by the Dutch government, has found privacy risks in Office 365, Windows 10 Enterprise and mobile apps, that are possible violations of GDPR.
The Dutch government discourages the use of this software.
In a reaction on previous remarks, Microsoft made modifications to Office 365 Pro Plus, which is now in line with GDPR.
more...
When you save a powerpoint as PDF, transparent parts of images (e.g. png) appear as black regions in the PDF.
The solution?
There are two kinds of Master
Documents: Those that are corrupt and those that will be corrupt
soon.
John McGie
Page breaks are an annoyance in word. Whenever you update your document they shift and mess up your layout.
Easily to avoid this by using the paragraph properties keep with next & keep lines together (and I don't know why these do not appear in the ribbon for east access).
But for some reason I never got tables to work with this.
Easy enough to select the table with the little cross in the left top that appears on hovering and setting the paragraph properties, but they did not take effect.
In a document with many small tables they kept on splitting across pages, and I had to revert to page breaks.
The solution: you have to make sure that in the table properties Text Wrapping is set to None. Now all is well!
Microsoft identified a former employee as the source of some press leaks of software under development (among others, Windows 8).
Micorsoft did so by searching the hotmail and Skydrive data of the journalist and the employee.
This is remarkable, as Microsoft launched the Scroogled campaign site against Google guaranteeing: Outlook.com is different—we don't go through your email to sell ads.
According to the terms of service of its Communication Services Microsoft has every right to go through your data:
Microsoft reserves the right to review materials posted to the
Communication Services and to remove any materials in its sole
discretion.
So, the terms of service do not include the campaign assurance that Microsoft will not go through your data for specific goals like selling ads, they may do so whenever they feel like it.
They do include motives that may trigger the of your data in the terms of service:
Microsoft may access, disclose, or preserve
information associated with your use of the services ... [to] protect
the rights or property of Microsoft or our customers.
So anything that has to do with licensing of software, music etc. may cause your data to be searched and any legal claim by a Microsoft customer (that's the entire business world) may lead to data disclosure.
Indeed, in the campaign, Microsoft does not claim that they will not go through your email. They just don't go through it with the purpose of selling adds.
Microsoft normally charges €50 for a pre-installed windows.
It has reduced this price to €15 for any device selling under €250, according to Bloomberg.
This is clearly a move to compete with tablets running Apple and Google software.
When you calculate the difference between two time cells in Microsoft Excel (2010 is what I'm using) displays ##### as a result if the difference is negative, because Excel can not display a negative time.
= (b1-a1)*60*24
=IF(b1>=a1;b1-a1;b1-a1+1)
The new Windows 8 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) secure booting system will prevent hardware from booting anything that has not been signed, using keys from Microsoft or the OEM.
This will prevent the hardware from booting anything else than Microsoft software, like malware (the target) or Linux (collateral benefit).
The effective rules are discussed here:
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