Microsoft Windows related discussions

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31142642

There are more than a billion PCs in use and, according to StatCounter, only 71 percent of them run Windows. Among the rest, about 4 percent run Linux. That's tens of millions of people with Ubuntu, Mint, Debian, etc as their desktop operating system. I envy them.

Windows 11 has become more annoying lately as it shoves ads for XBox Game Pass in my face, pushes AI features no one asked for and demands that I reconsider the choices I made during installation on a regular basis. Plus, it just isn't that attractive.

I'm ready to try joining that industrious four percent and installing Linux on my computers to use as my main OS, at least for a week. I'll blog about the experience here.

It's hard to give up Windows forever because so many applications only run in Microsoft's OS. For example, the peripheral software that runs with many keyboards and mice isn't available for Linux. Lots of games will not run under Linux. So I think it's likely I'll be using Windows again, at least some of the time, after this week is through.

However, for now, I'm going to give Linux a very serious audition and document the experience.

Not really happy with the speed of the default one. Any FOSS suggestions?

Hi,

I'm helping an NGO that need to renew their Microsoft 365 License...

So we can see the active one under (in admin.microsoft.com )

home\Your product - Product

But no option here to renew, only to contact a previous "Partner" (this option is a no go)

in home\Purchase services\Product details it seem we can buy new licenses...

But their no indication if those licenses will start after the previous one !? If the users assigned to the previous license will receive the new one automatically etc..

Of course I went to the help section, but either it's a FAQ (where my question is not listed... of course...) or it's a link to the partner.. but not directly to Microsoft...

If you have any clue, I'm all ears. :)

More concerning, Microsoft warns that one of the flaws fixed this month is “wormable,” meaning no human interaction would be required for an attack to spread from one vulnerable Windows box to another.

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By all accounts, the most severe flaw addressed today is CVE-2022-21907, a critical, remote code execution flaw in the “HTTP Protocol Stack.” Microsoft says the flaw affects Windows 10 and Windows 11, as well as Server 2019 and Server 2022.

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The senior vice president of Microsoft Teams announced that Teams would be moving to their own Edge Webview2 Rendering Engine ditching Electron for seeking performance gains. It is marketed that Teams would consume 2x less memory as a result of the transition. It would be called Teams 2.0 and might ship with Windows 11 in late 2022.

Windows Insiders have been given a bit of Linux love with the arrival of a freshly updated kernel and an all-important clock fix.

Is it supposed so it remembers?