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CVE-2021-34527: Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Patch for PrintNightmare Vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler

Tenable

On July 6, Microsoft updated its advisory to announce the availability of out-of-band patches for a critical vulnerability in its Windows Print Spooler that researchers are calling PrintNightmare. This remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affects all versions of Microsoft Windows. for 32-bit systems Windows 8.1 Description.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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CVE-2020-1350: Wormable Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows DNS Server Disclosed (SIGRed)

Tenable

Researchers disclose a 17-year old wormable flaw in Windows DNS servers. On July 14, Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server as part of Patch Tuesday for July 2020. According to the researchers, the vulnerability has persisted in Windows DNS Server for 17 years. Background.

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A Microsoft Bigot’s Guide To Windows 10

Modus Create

With decades of experience as a developer and network engineer, I have seen my own personal progression of preferred workstation operating systems from DOS to Windows 3, to Windows 95, to Amiga, to OS/2, to Windows 7, and finally to Linux and macOS. I now add Windows 10 to this list. The shop was a Windows shop.

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When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues

TechCrunch

All of these downturns have one thing in common: The IPO window eventually reopened when the economy stabilized. In June 2004, eight months later, Salesforce went public. The EV/revenue multiple of IGV — a measurement that shows how much every $1 of revenue translated into valuation — dropped by 57%.

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Security and Windows 10 Will Cross Paths for Enterprises

CTOvision

But optimism came in the form of Microsoft as word began to spread that the company had solved the problems they experienced with Windows 8/8.1 and that Windows 10 was better than the Enterprise could have imagined. This year, two of 2014’s biggest stories will intersect as security and Windows 10 prepare to re-shape the Enterprise.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is popularly known for his outstanding work on object-oriented programming and windowing graphical user-interface design. In 2004, the Kyoto prize. He is rightly called the architect of The Modern Overlapping Windowing Graphical User Interface. Also, he is famous as the first researcher of mobile learning.