September 2016 has the usual collection of patches for security lapses in Microsoft products. There’s the standard collection of Windows and browser fixes including Internet Explorer and the new Edge browser. For Office customers there’s only one patch. Yet again, hackers have found a way to hack an Office document to gain access to a […]
Microsoft’s customers in the United Kingdom can now choose their own country as the place for data to be stored. Microsoft has announced that they’ve opened UK data centres in London, Durham and Cardiff which can store Office 365, Azure, OneDrive and other Microsoft hosted data. These ‘local’ data centres are intended to settle concerns […]
From 1 Nov 2016, only a few weeks away, Microsoft will stop updating their junk email filter in Outlook for Windows and Mac. What does that mean for you and your Outlook Junk Email settings? What’s happening? Microsoft won’t be updating their email spam ‘Smartscreen’ technology any more. That’s the Junk Email part of Outlook […]
Mercedes has announced a new project ‘In Car Office’ which will put your calendar, contacts etc on your car dashboard, starting in 2017. This is interesting because there’s some specifics and a date. Usually these car related tech announcements are long on catch phrases (‘strategic alliance’, ‘future’, ‘vision’) and short on reality. While there’s no […]
Microsoft has released details of a new way Office documents can be used to infect your computer. The documents can contain disguised OLE objects which are the real danger. We’ve often said that ‘new’ Office documents (.docx .xlsx etc) are safer than their .doc etc predecessors. That’s because the new ‘.???x’ files won’t run VBA […]
