Month: January 2018

ComputerWorldIndependent

FAQ: Windows 10 LTSB explained

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 03:52:00 -0800

Windows 10 will power to its third anniversary this summer, but one branch, identified by the initials L-T-S-B, remains an enigma to most corporate users.

LTSB, which stands for “Long-term Servicing Branch,” was among the pillars of Windows 10 in the months leading up to, and for months after, the mid-2015 roll-out of the operating system. For a time, it seemed that it had a shot at becoming the Windows 10 for enterprise because it was seen as a calm port in a storm of radical change.

That hasn’t happened, in part because Microsoft has steered customers away from LTSB.

Just what is LTSB? And what has Microsoft done to make it an afterthought?

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Data is the New Oil, Driving Data Center Growth, Opportunity and Efficiency

Credit to Author: Mark Bidinger| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 16:00:23 +0000

At the recent Schneider Electric International Colo Club meeting in London I had an interesting conversation with one of our customers who noted that we’re raising a generation of kids… Read more »

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Patching meltdown: Windows fixes, sloppy .NET, warnings about Word and Outlook

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 09:28:00 -0800

On the heels of the Jan. 17 release of 14 Windows and .NET patches, we now have a huge crop of new patches, revised older patches, warnings about bugs, and a bewildered ecosystem of Microsoft customers who can’t figure out what in the blue blazes is going on.

Let’s step through the, uh, offerings on Jan. 18.

Windows 10 patches

Win10 Fall Creators Update version 1709 — Cumulative update KB 4073291 brings the Meltdown/Spectre patches to 32-bit machines. What, you thought 32-bit machines already had Meltdown/Spectre patches? Silly mortal. Microsoft’s Security Advisory ADV180002 has the dirty details in the fine print, point 7:

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