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Microsoft’s New Browser Ships in January with New Icon and More Privacy

Microsoft’s new Edge browser is nearly complete and the company is introducing a new icon and privacy features with the impeding release.

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Microsoft Edge Takes Another Step Towards General Availability

Microsoft’s new Edge browser is ready for beta testing but don’t expect the final release to be available anytime soon.

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Patch Tuesday August 2019

This month Microsoft patches ‘wormable’ vulnerabilities in Remote Desktop that it discovered during routine hardening, remote code execution flaws in Edge and IE, and a new advisory for LDAP security is issued for Active Directory.

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Microsoft Edge Now Available for Windows 7 and 8.1

Microsoft currently offers Edge in three flavors for Windows 10: Canary, Developer, and Beta. For now, you can only install the Canary flavor on older versions of Windows while Windows 10 does offer a Developer release; there is no Beta of Edge available at this time.

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Using the Patterns and Practices PowerShell with SharePoint

Learn about a superior tool called Patterns and Practices PowerShell with SharePoint Online and on-prem.

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Microsoft to Fix Zero-Day Windows Flaw That Was Outed by Google

Microsoft announced that it will fix a dangerous new zero-day security flaw in Windows that it says is being exploited by hackers in Russia. But Microsoft is also understandably outraged that Google inexplicably outed the flaw before a patch was ready.

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SCARY: “Atom Bomb” Windows Security Hole said to be Unfixable

Windows has an unfixable security flaw. That’s the frightening conclusion of this researcher, who says he can inject code—at will—into browsers and other Windows apps. It affects all versions of Windows released in the past 16 years, he says. And it can’t be patched, without breaking legitimate desktop apps. It could be bad for containerized server workloads, too…

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Microsoft’s New Windows 7/8 Rollup Patches To Be Released Starting Tomorrow

Microsoft is making significant changes to how it updates Windows and Server products; these updates go live starting tomorrow which means it is important for you to be prepared.

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Microsoft’s New Patching Philosophy Sacrifices A Few For The Many

Microsoft is making a big bet by changing how it will patch older versions of Windows with a goal of reducing the complexity of the Windows ecosystem but will it pay off?

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Huge Change to Patch Tuesday — IT Admins are Revolting [updated]

Microsoft to change how older Windows versions get patches. For better or worse, it’ll be more like the Windows 10 way. Next Patch Tuesday, prepare for a single rollup patch. This means you won’t be able to pick and choose the patches that work for you. And that’s good, because… um, reasons.

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