March 15th's episode of Good Morning America had a segment sponsored by Microsoft called "Boosting Your Business". In the segment, they talk to businesses with remote employees and show how Microsoft Teams can help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwcPFHSiYe4 Teams is Microsoft's Slack competitor and included with all Office 365 business plans. … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2017
Adobe Acrobat and Reader DC will receive new version numbers
Windows 10 is the latest Microsoft operating system despite all of the updates to it. No more X.1 or SP2 or X.1 Update. Just Windows 10. Adobe seemed to be following this pattern with Adobe Acrobat DC and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. Version numbers don't matter, DC is just the latest version of the software available thanks to the subscription method. That's why it was a little … [Read more...]
Pwn2Own 2017 results
As the second year under Trend Micro's ownership, the popular hacking event Pwn2Own is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. The targets this year include VMware Workstation, Microsoft Hyper-V, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash in Microsoft Edge, and Apple Safari. There are also demonstrations of local Escalation of Privilege bugs against Windows, … [Read more...]
You can now attach money in Gmail on Android
AOL mail voice: You've got money. Need to send somebody some money? You can now use the Gmail app on Android to send it just like you would send a picture. Simply compose a message and choose the Attach paperclip. Then choose Send Money. Enter the amount to send from your Google Wallet account and send your message. The person receiving the money will get an email … [Read more...]
Firefox 52 drops support for Java, Silverlight, Acrobat, and other NPAPI plugins (except Flash)
Firefox released version 52.0 today. It brings the usual bug fixes and security enhancements but most noticeably it takes away the ability to use NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API) plugins like Silverlight, Java, Acrobat, and others. Adobe's Flash Player is the one exception to this removal and Mozilla promises to further restrict Flash to only activate with click-to-play later … [Read more...]