This Week on Windows: Highlights from our #MicrosoftEDU event

2017-05-06 KENNETH 0

This Week on Windows: Highlights from our #MicrosoftEDU event We hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of This Week on Windows where we shared highlights from our #MicrosoftEDU event in New York City. At the event, we shared a lot of exciting news about Microsoft Education. If you missed the keynote, you can watch it here on-demand. Here are highlights from the event: Empowering students and teachers of today to create the world of tomorrow We introduced a set of educational products and services, inspired by teachers and students, including a new Windows experience called Windows 10 S; new experiences in Microsoft Teams for modern classroom collaboration; new features in Minecraft: Education Edition to teach coding ; 3D and mixed reality tools to spark creativity; a range of Windows 10 S PCs for K-12 classrooms; and the perfect Windows 10 [ more… ]

Create more with the latest Windows 10 Maps updates

2017-05-06 KENNETH 0

Create more with the latest Windows 10 Maps updates Hello! I’m Dave Alles, Partner Group Program Manager for the Windows Maps team. Our team delivers the Windows Maps app and the underlying map platform available to developers on all Windows 10 devices. We continuously work to release app updates with new functionality and improve the map control based on all the feedback we get from Windows Insiders, app developers, and our customers. We have a lot of updates we’ll go through, but I wanted to discuss a few upfront, designed to empower the creator in all of us. Ink on aerial mode – make any view of maps your own by adding rich annotations with Windows Ink. Planning an off-road hike, calculating the distance, and marking a mid-way spot for lunch becomes easier when you can personalize and write on [ more… ]

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USN-3276-1: shadow vulnerabilities

2017-05-05 KENNETH 0

USN-3276-1: shadow vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notice USN-3276-1 5th May, 2017 shadow vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 17.04 Ubuntu 16.10 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary su could be made to crash or stop programs as an administrator. Software description shadow – system login tools Details Sebastian Krahmer discovered integer overflows in shadow utilities.A local attacker could possibly cause them to crash or potentiallygain privileges via crafted input. (CVE-2016-6252) Tobias Stöckmann discovered a race condition in su. A localattacker could cause su to send SIGKILL to other processes withroot privileges. (CVE-2017-2616) Update instructions The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version: Ubuntu 17.04: passwd 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.17.04.1 login 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.17.04.1 uidmap 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.17.04.1 Ubuntu 16.10: passwd 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.16.10.1 login 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.16.10.1 uidmap 1:4.2-3.2ubuntu1.16.10.1 Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: passwd 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.2 login 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.2 uidmap 1:4.2-3.1ubuntu5.2 [ more… ]

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16188 for PC + Build 15210 for Mobile

2017-05-05 KENNETH 0

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16188 for PC + Build 15210 for Mobile Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16188 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. We are also releasing Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview Build 15210 to Insiders in the Fast ring. NOTE: This build is not yet available for Windows Insiders on Windows 10 Enterprise Insider Preview builds in these languages: AR-SA, DA-DK, EN-GB, ES-MX, FI-FI, FR-CA, NB-NO, and TH-TH. What’ New in Build 16188 For PC Awesome new features in Microsoft Edge’s PDF Reader: In addition to addressing a lot of Insider feedback on PDF functionality in Microsoft Edge, this build is also packed with a bunch of new features for reading PDFs in Microsoft Edge that we want you to check out. Here [ more… ]

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Improvements for Enterprises in Microsoft Edge on the Windows 10 Creators Update

2017-05-05 KENNETH 0

Improvements for Enterprises in Microsoft Edge on the Windows 10 Creators Update Last month, we began rolling out the Windows 10 Creators Update (Windows 10 version 1703) to over 400 million customers around the world. The Creators Update upgrades Microsoft Edge to EdgeHTML 15, including a number of performance, security, and compatibility improvements. In this post, we’ll share a bit more detail on how the Windows 10 Creators Update makes Microsoft Edge better than ever for Enterprise customers and IT Professionals. Management Improvements In Windows 10 version 1703, we’ve added new policies that support key management scenarios, enabled by Mobile Device Management (MDM), Microsoft Intune, and Group Policy. In particular, we’ve focused on missing policies that were requested in your feedback. You can find the full list of new policies for Microsoft Edge in the Available Policies topic on TechNet. [ more… ]