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Microsoft to kill Patch Tuesday for some enterprise users

15-04-2022 19:48

Microsoft is planning to release a new tool that will automate the patch management process, all but eliminating Patch Tuesdays for many organizations.The company’s new Windows Autopatch service will keep business computers continuously updated as part of a new feature included with the Windows Enterprise E3 subscription service.Organizations running systems with a Windows 10 or Windows 11 Enterprise E3 license will be eligible for the new patch service, which is expected to be generally

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April's Patch Tuesday: a lot of large, diverse and urgent updates

15-04-2022 19:40

This week's Patch Tuesday release was huge, diverse, risky, and urgent, with late update arrivals for Microsoft browsers (CVE-2022-1364) and two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows (CVE-2022-26809 and CVE-2022-24500). Fortunately, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange, but this month we do have to deal with more Adobe (PDF) printing related vulnerabilities and associated testing efforts. We have added the Windows and Adobe updates to our "Patch Now" schedule, and

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Apple plots a Mac revolution in interesting times

15-04-2022 18:48

This spring, spare a thought for Apple’s operations, silicon, and hardware development teams. Those people will probably be trying to test heavily disguised hardware containing the first M2 processors to roll off the TSMC production line.And they’ll be doing so while attempting to surreptitiously build and test production capacity – all in the context of a pandemic that threatens to shutter global tech supply lines.To read this article in full, please click here

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Mergers and acquisitions and takeovers — oh my!

15-04-2022 18:03

Disclosure: Most of the companies mentioned as merger examples are clients of the author.There are generally three reasons to acquire another company: synergy between the companies that leads to a competitive advantage; the elimination of a competitor; and the acquisition of critical intellectual property. I’ve been thinking about this in the wake of Elon Musk’s attempt to buy Twitter this week. (It looks more like it’s an effort to buy the CEO job at Twitter, more than the co

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