In the same vein, Microsoft is once again asking customers to ditch passwords completely and shift to password-less solutions such as Windows Hello, Microsoft Authenticator, and security keys. In the cybersecurity space, Microsoft, Google, and Apple have formed a partnership expanding support for a common password-less standard developed by the FIDO Alliance and the World Wide Web Consortium. Once the malicious files are installed, they go on to delete the backup volume shadow copy of the encrypted drives and creates a "README" HTML file that contains the ransom notes asking for 0.068 BTC (~$2,600), an amount that is set to double if the payment is not made within five days. Speaking of security threats, beware of the Magniber ransomware being distributed through fake Windows update standalone files. It's an endpoint security solution that’s designed to fend off troublesome ransomware attacks and other cyber threats in small and medium business environments. Microsoft did launch Defender for Business, though. Then, AV-Test's latest results also revealed that Defender is a resource hog, the anti-malware service fared quite poorly in the latest rankings and barely received a "Standard" rating. First, we received reports that multiple customers using Defender for Endpoint are experiencing high memory usage, black screens after logging in, and difficulties in opening apps. Microsoft's Defender suite of products had an eventful week, to say the least. There's a new Windows Server Insider Preview release in the form of build 25110 too, but as usual, there's no changelog. NET Framework 3.5 apps, but in the meantime, you can check out some workarounds here. Microsoft is also working on a fix for its KB5012643 optional Windows 11 update causing problems from. There are a bunch of fixes and improvements included in this release but the highlights are a fixed "Show hidden icons" flyout in the system tray and a preview of the Controller Bar to offer quick access to games.īut if you're not satisfied with the current state of Windows 11, Stardock's Start11 version has some improvements in the form of returning the seconds to the Taskbar clock and the pinning of Edge tabs to Start menu Search, among many other things. The jury's still out on when Windows 11 version 22H2 will start rolling out publicly too.įor now though, Microsoft has rolled out Windows 11 build 22616 to the Windows Insider Dev and Beta Channels. There have been conflicting statements on this matter from other unofficial sources too so it is important to temper your expectations accordingly. Speaking of stuff that isn't public yet, a new report claims that the next feature update to Windows 11, version 22H2, may hit RTM this month. And if you're more interested in the current version of Outlook on Windows, you may want to know that there's a new place you can access your mentions. It remains to be seen when Microsoft will start rolling out the new client publicly, but until that happens, feast your eyes on the gallery containing a bunch of screenshots from the leaked client. The screenshots make it look almost identical to the web version, which makes sense because this is a web-powered app after all. Leaked Outlook clientĪlthough Microsoft has been talking about its "One Outlook" strategy to unify Outlook across all platforms through Project Monarch for some time now, we finally saw the fruits of that endeavor this week thanks to some screenshots from the leaked app. According to the latest figures from StatCounter, Edge now commands a market share of 10.07%, which further solidifies its place as the second most popular browser available. It appears that Microsoft Edge is gaining traction among more users too. It doesn't contain any new consumer-facing features as the focus this time around is on " upgrading to new dependencies and building for native ARM64". In terms of other open-source Microsoft software that received updates this week, we got version 0.58.0 for PowerToys. Although the project doesn't have a real-world use-case now, it may be fun to fork it and have at it with all sorts of whacky experiments and force it to run on modern hardware. The ancient software was released almost three decades ago to showcase the graphical prowess of Windows 95 and help children learn the basics of 3D animation. Microsoft's Scott Hanselman led this effort which saw the release of the 1995 software as an open-source GitHub repository. This week, Microsoft surprised everyone by making Windows 3D Movie Maker open-source after a person requested it on Twitter.
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