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It's a Big Freaking Deal when we can move any #UnitedNations organization away from #Microsoft.
The system-wide IT shop UNICC has announced its move to #Matrix:
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The United Nations ditches Big Tech in a bid for security
UNICC has chosen Element to secure its communicationsChiara Castro (TechRadar pro)
No #LinuxFoundation, not "rebel", but "evil 800 pound gorilla suing the life out of projects left and right"
Don't whitewash history
#ossummit #opensource #Microsoft
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
Link: neowin.net/news/microsoft-bloc…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
Microsoft appears to be blocking even more apps for customizing the user interface in Windows 11 24H2. Users noticed that ExplorerPatcher joined the recently blocked StartAllBack app.Taras Buria (Neowin)
⚡ Watch out: #Microsoft joins #Google & #Facebook with its focus on ads first. ⚡
When creating a test account, #Outlook informed us of 813 data sharing partners! 🫢
Plus, the "new" Outlook app is quietly storing your data in the cloud, including your passwords.
👉 tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-p…
Emails, Contacts, Passwords - Oh My! New Outlook Shares It All With Microsoft Putting Your Security At Risk
Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows shares all your data with its severs - and with up to 813 partners.Tutanota
Microsoft Word Training for NVDA (eBook)
The official training material for Microsoft Word 2010 through to the latest 2021 and Office 365 with NVDA. Concepts covered range from getting started with Microsoft Word to advanced skills such a…NV Access
I’m not sure who’s to blame in the #EU for giving up to the lobbying efforts of #Apple and #Microsoft (I can’t think of anything short of either public official corruption or macroscopic incompetence behind the last minute partial reversal of the #DMA definition of “gatekeeper” for the two most valuable companies in the world), but these are some consequences of this decision:
- If Apple isn’t labelled as a gatekeeper when it comes to #iMessage (an app used by 1.3B people), then they won’t have to comply and open up their walled garden to 3rd-party clients - while, for example, Messenger and WhatsApp will have to comply, despite having similar numbers of users.
- If Microsoft isn’t labelled as a gatekeeper when it comes to #Edge (a piece of software installed as the default browser on an OS used by at least 1.5B people), then they’ll be free to keep rewriting
https://URLs asmicrosoft-edge:https://just for the sake of intercepting everything and breaking compatibility, they’ll no longer have to provide browser selection pop-ups on fresh Windows installations, and they can keep opening all the web views and PWA on Windows devices in their own browser without providing alternatives - while, for example, Chrome and Safari will have to comply.
Shame on the EU for bending to them. They have just lost a huge chunk of credibility, and nobody should trust them the next time that they say that they want to uphold the same principles to everyone. Shame on these companies and on their lobbying efforts. Shame on everybody who still uses their products and gives them so much undeserved leverage.
The DMA and the “gatekeeper” definition was supposed to be the proof that these companies are now run by responsible adults. Being a “gatekeeper” is the acknowledgment that you are running platforms used by billions, and with great power comes great responsibility - towards society, towards regulators, towards the rules of the open market, towards your own competitors.
My employer might be included on the list soon as well, and I’m more than happy to comply. Large tech companies like ours have enjoyed lavish profits and outrageous market shares and ignored anti-competition laws for too long: now it’s time to prove that we’re all grown ups who want to play by the rules.
Instead, Apple and Microsoft have unleashed their overpaid legal counsels and lobbying crews, who have engaged in a pathetic dance to gaslight Brussels officials, and force them to say that one of the largest messaging platforms and one of the most used browsers in the world, run by the two companies with the highest evaluations in the world, for some reason are not expected to play by the rules written for everyone else.
Shame on them, and shame on the childish sociopaths who run them.
theregister.com/2024/02/14/app…
Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules
Did someone say a safety word? iMessage, Bing, Edge, Ads avoid gatekeeper restrictionsThomas Claburn (The Register)
📫GREAT Reason To Both Use / Support @thunderbird #Thunderbird
New Microsoft #Outlook Collects / Shares Your Data w/Over 772 Parties
#email #communication #FOSS #Microsoft #Thunderbird #Mozilla #encryption #crypto #e2ee #infosec #Proton #surveillance #cybersecurity #privacy #News
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Outlook is Microsoft’s new data collection service
The new Outlook now appears to be a data collection service for Microsoft’s 772 external partners for targeted advertising.Edward Komenda (Proton)
Shifting Left to Get Accessibility Right at Microsoft
Learn how we’re finding and fixing accessibility issues earlier in the development process internally here at Microsoft.Lukas Velush (Inside Track Blog)
Kurzer Kommentar von FrauTux zum Thema #O365 in einer Behörde:
»Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit liebt O365 und wir sind alle drin« 👇
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#microsoft #datenschutz #dsgvo #ttdsg #verantwortungslosigkeit
Kommentar: Die Bundesagentur für Arbeit liebt O365 und wir sind alle drin
Mit Erschrecken habe ich neulich im Fediverse diesen Link zu LinkedIn und einem Statement des CIO der Bundesagentur für Arbeit gefunden.Kuketz IT-Security Forum ⋆ IT-Sicherheit | Datenschutz
Resolved: Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from @tutanota.com Domain as Spam.
tuta.com/blog/outlook-falsely-…
This is just another example of how much power Microsoft has. But sometimes I'm not sure they really know what they're doing.
Anyway, dealing with Windows email users (businesses and individuals) can be a nightmare.
If you plan on using your own email server, sooner or later you'll be playing this game too.
#microsoft #outlook #hotmail #email #spam @Tutanota
Resolved: Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from @tutanota.com Domain as Spam.
Update: Emails from Tutanota.com no longer go to Spam in Outlook.Tutanota
⚡ For three weeks #Microsoft was sending all tutanota.com emails to spam in #Outlook.
You helped #spread the word so suddenly #Microsoft was able to fix this within one day! 💪
Thank you! 🙏
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Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from @tutanota.com Domain as Spam. Is This Legal?
Users began reporting issues with mail delivery in November 2023 and communication with Microsoft has reached radio silence.Tutanota
sadly that is nothing new.
#Microsoft literally weaponizes it's position as "#TooBigToFail" #eMail #provider and comstantly make up excuses like "no #SPF / #DKIM / #DMARC records" when they themselves don't comply with it.
Consider involving all #regulators you can ranging from #FCC to @EU_Commission to @BNetzA to forve Microsoft to stop this shite...
The new #Outlook is good... for 766 third parties that track you.
What do you do to stop trackers dead?
Plus, Outlook shares your emails, contacts and passwords with its US servers. So you better watch out! 👉 tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-p…
Emails, Contacts, and Passwords - Oh My! New Outlook Overshares with Microsoft
When using Outlook your sensitive data may not stay on your machine, but be sent to Microsoft servers.Tutanota
Edit2: Solved! Thanks everyone!
#Blind #Microsoft #excel users and others who, for whatever reason, only use the keyboard, NOT THE MOUSE: How the hell do I tell Excell to continue a pattern in a column without selecting it and clicking on the bottom left side of the screen or whatever?
Let's say I have a column with 1 in A1, 2 in A2, 3 in A3, so forth, and want that to go on for 150 cells or so. How the hell do I do it? Because I know I used to know, but I cannot find it.
It's not control+d. That just fills the whole column with 1's. It's not copy-paste; that does adjust properly for formulas, but for this, it doesn't. There is surely an option somewhere in the menus, but I cannot find it.
Alternatively, I'd also be happy to learn of ways to do this in #OpenOffice #Calc, so long as they are keyboard-only and accessible. LibreOffice doesn't work all that well here, at least Writer doesn't, but I could double-check if that extends to other programs.
#AskFedi #AskMastodon #ScreemReader
Edit: a couple folks suggested using formulas for this, adding so the first cell would be 1, the second A1 +1, etc. That works quite well for most use cases! It would mean the order of the numbers would stay the same when reordering the table though, so if I was using this to autocomplete a list of years, then sold by the comumn Income ... bam, the income of each year's not right anymore.
Also suggested was Home>Fill>Series. I do not see a Series option in the Fill menu at all, Bewilderingly. I'll try to switch my language to English to see if that's the issue, but I pressed all the things, so pretty sure it's not there for me in Office 365. Could someone with that version check whether it works for them?
Edit2: I figured out how to get to the series option! Turns out it was there, I just didn't realise I had to select the right type of series. 
For those curious, for the Slovenian version, that's Alt +N, FI, V, Enter.
Ganz genau... wenn jede Implementation beliebig von der Empfehlung (Recommendation) abweicht, kann man sich ein Standardprotokoll auch sparen... 
Ernsthaft, beliebig neue Felder zu nutzen, mag vereinzelt 'ne nette Idee sein, bringt aber zwangsläufig Probleme in der Kommunikation mit sich...
Vergleiche mal die Art, wie #Microsoft & Co. z.B. den E-Mail-Standard unterlaufen... 
Do you trust #Microsoft? Because #Outlook has a real scare for you. 😱
Read more on this 🚩 breaking story! 👇
Emails, Contacts, and Passwords - Oh My! New Outlook Overshares with Microsoft:
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Emails, Contacts, and Passwords - Oh My! New Outlook Overshares with Microsoft
When using Outlook your sensitive data may not stay on your machine, but be sent to Microsoft servers.Tutanota
Wer nicht möchte, dass seine E-Mail-Zugangsdaten inklusive E-Mails an Microsoft abfließen, sollte ein alternatives E-Mail-Programm verwenden. Sofern "Neues Outlook" bereits im Einsatz ist, sollte das Konto gelöscht und anschließend die Zugangsdaten geändert werden. Eine mögliche Alternative: Thunderbird. 👇
#microsoft #thunderbird #datenschutz #sicherheit #outlook
Thunderbird — Befreien Sie Ihren Posteingang.
Thunderbird ist eine freie E-Mail-Anwendung, die man einfach einrichten und anpassen kann — und sie ist voll mit tollen Funktionen!Thunderbird
Shocking but not surprising: New #Microsoft #Outlook is phishing **your mail account credentials** without telling you, all it takes is try it out once. So, don't.
As always, better go with FOSS: @thunderbird
Usually phishing comes from shady people that need to jump through some hoops to try and get you. #Microsoft just thinks they can rob you in broad daylight.. crazy.
heise.de/news/Microsoft-krallt…
Microsoft krallt sich Zugangsdaten: Achtung vor dem neuen Outlook
Das neue kostenlose Outlook ersetzt Mail in Windows, später auch das klassische Outlook. Es schickt geheime Zugangsdaten an Microsoft.Dirk Knop (heise online)
Und täglich grüßt das Murmeltier: »Das neue kostenlose Outlook ersetzt Mail in Windows, später auch das klassische Outlook. Es schickt geheime Zugangsdaten an Microsoft.«
Macht die Outlook-Version für Android übrigens ebenso - schon seit Jahren.
Petition der Mozilla Foundation an #Microsoft:
"Wir haben 4 Jurist*innen, 3 Datenschutzexpert*innen und 2 Aktivist*innen beauftragt, den neuen Servicevertrag von Microsoft unter die Lupe zu nehmen. Keinem der Profis gelang es, dem Dokument zu entnehmen, ob Microsoft plant, Ihre persönlichen Daten – darunter Audio- und Videodaten, Chatprotokolle und Dateianhänge aus 130 Produkten wie Office, Skype, Teams und Xbox – zum Training seiner KI-Modelle zu nutzen.
Wenn 9 Datenschutzexpert*innen nicht verstehen, wie Microsoft Ihre Daten nutzen wird – wie sollen Normalverbraucher*innen da durchblicken? Wahrscheinlich gar nicht. Deshalb fordern wir Microsoft auf, Klartext zu reden, ob das Unternehmen persönliche Daten zu KI-Trainingszwecken einsetzt."
foundation.mozilla.org/de/camp…
Trainiert Microsoft seine KI mit unseren persönlichen Daten? Fragen Sie nach!
Mozilla ist eine globale gemeinnützige Organisation, die sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, das Internet als globale öffentliche Ressource zu erhalten, die offen und für alle zugänglich ist.Mozilla Foundation
Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in a future release
Link: theregister.com/2023/10/10/mic…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Microsoft says VBScript will be ripped from Windows in future release
It's PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant futureThomas Claburn (The Register)
Here's a stark reminder that any #backdoor is a #vulnerability:
"China-based hackers used a stolen sign-in key" to hack into US government's #Microsoft email accounts.
That's why we at Tutanota fight for strong encryption - without any backdoor. 🔒
#Microsoft wants to move #Windows fully to the cloud.
theverge.com/2023/6/27/2377511…
Don't let them force you to log on to their servers to monitor and control you every time you need your computer.
Take back your desktop! Use Plasma!
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud
Microsoft’s long-term ambition with Windows is to move the OS to the cloud. Windows 365 is just the beginning on the commercial side, with plans to get consumers into a cloud version of Windows eventually.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Quick FYI 🏁 🏎️
Prior to #GoDaddy killing my #POP #Email client access on June 2 as part of #Microsoft's mandate to force users onto its #Exchange protocol, I switched from #Outlook 2016 to #Thunderbird 114 Beta (which still connects w/ #POP3 + #OAuth2 - unsure if it's a glitch, but it works)
Thunderbird 114 Beta Portable (it's the version I'm using)
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Since Thunderbird team is moving towards its new #Supernova #UI for Thunderbird 115, there's a mixture of old & new menus
Thunderbird, Portable Edition Test (email client) | PortableApps.com
Thunderbird, Portable Edition Test is a test version of the popular Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.PortableApps.com
So, if you're running #microsoft #edge and you've been wondering why all of a sudden web links you paste into slack are broken as all get out, this is why:
support.microsoft.com/en-us/mi…
Thank god you can turn it off in settings.
Improved copy and paste of URLs in Microsoft Edge - Microsoft Support
How to use the improved copy and paste of URLs function for Microsoft Edgesupport.microsoft.com
Global Accessibility Awareness Day – Accessibility at the heart of innovation - Microsoft On the Issues
Today, we celebrate the 12th annual Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD): A day to drive awareness, highlight the advancements in accessible technology, and the incredible work happening within the community to bridge the disability divide.Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft)
Wer es immer noch nicht glaubt: eine mit Passwort versehene ZIP Datei darf man nicht als "sicher verschlüsselt" betrachten! Schon gar nicht in der #Microsoft #Cloud
Malware detected: Microsoft-Cloud hebelt ZIP-Passwortschutz aus
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Malware detected: Microsoft-Cloud hebelt ZIP-Passwortschutz aus
Wer glaubt, die Inhalte seiner ZIP-Dateien seien durch ihren Passwortschutz sicher, der irrt. Selbst Microsoft schaut da mittlerweile rein.Marc Stöckel (Tarnkappe.info)
»Länder verheimlichen Rechtsgutachten zu Microsoft 365«
Ich kommentiere das an dieser Stelle mal nicht - ein Bild genügt. 😉
golem.de/news/datenschutz-laen…
#ms365 #gutachten #dsgvo #datenschutz #microsoft
FREUNDLICHE ERINERRUNG
Microsoft365 ist nicht datenschutzkonform einsetzbar.
Denkt bitte daran, wenn Ihr noch MS365 an der Schule einsetzt oder den Einsatz sogar noch ausweiten wollt, dass Ihr dann trotz besseren Wissens die SuS einer Dauerüberwachung durch einen der größten Monopolisten aussetzt.
Hört auf, MS365 an Schulen zu benutzen.
Siehe Beschluss der Datenschutzkonferenz vom November 2022:
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#FediLZ #MS365 #Microsoft #Office #Office365 #DSK #Datenschutz
Es ist ja nicht so, dass wir nicht schon länger vom Vendor-Lock-In gewarnt hätten. Nun hat Microsoft ihren Cloud-Kunden am 1. April ganz unironisch ein Preiserhöhung-Ei gelegt.
«EU-Cloud-Wettbewerber: Microsofts Preissteigerungen reichen an Erpressung»
🥚 heise.de/news/EU-Cloud-Wettbew…
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#microsoft #cloud #vendorlockin #eu #erpressung #IToldYouSo
EU-Cloud-Wettbewerber: Microsofts Preissteigerungen reichen an Erpressung
Zum 1. April hat Microsoft die Preise für Cloud-Produkte um elf Prozent erhöht. Betroffenen und Konkurrenten stößt die Teuerung verstärkt äußerst übel auf.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
No more custom domains in #Microsoft #Outlook! 😱
No worries, we've got you covered. 😉
tutanota.com/blog/posts/micros…
No more custom domains in Microsoft Outlook! 😱
Microsoft will phase out custom email domains in Outlook.com: A perfect time to create an address with Tutanota!Tutanota
Microsoft Authenticator prompts the user to accept sharing analytics during the first launch. The prompt only dismisses when the user taps on "Accept." In fact, the app starts sending analytics even before accepting the privacy statement.🤦♂️
In this video, we downloaded the authenticator app from the App Store and we opened it as we monitored the iPhone network traffic. While the app was showing the permission prompt, we captured at least 3 calls made by the app sending diagnostics to Microsoft. The app sent 14 KB of analytics even before accepting the prompt.
The message on the prompt actually says that Microsoft needs to collect diagnostic data in order to keep Authenticator secure and up to date. 😵💫
#Privacy #Cybersecurity #2FA #InfoSec #Security #Microsoft
Privacy: Microsoft Authenticator sends analytics even before accepting the privacy statement
When opening Microsoft Authenticator for the first time after downloading it from the App Store, it prompts the user to accept sharing diagnostics with Micro...YouTube
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Hey, anyone at #microsoft interested in #accessibility in #windows11 on the #desktop... Windows Magnifier, in full-screen mode: goes from being clear & sharp to blurry whenever the Taskbar comes into view. More info in Microsoft Feedback Hub, here:
The Windows Insider Program
Be the first to see what's next for Windows in the Windows Insider Program. Join the community, provide feedback to help make Windows even better.aka.ms
Bisher: Bei der Nutzung der mobilen Outlook App (iOS, Android) speichert Microsoft die Zugangsdaten zu dem E-Mail-Konto (einschließlich des Passworts) auf eigenen Servern, verarbeitet alle ein- und ausgehenden E-Mails auf eigenen Servern und hat damit vollen Einblick sowohl in Inhalts- als auch in alle Metadaten.
Neu: Jetzt exklusiv auch für Mac-Rechner verfügbar! 😵
heise.de/news/Microsoft-IMAP-U…
#microsoft #dsgvo #datenschutz #fail #imap #outlook
Microsoft: IMAP-Umleitung in Outlook nach Office-Update jetzt auch auf Macs
Die Mobil-App von Outlook leitet IMAP-Abfragen schon seit Langem über Microsofts Azure-Cloud um. Nach einem Update passiert das nun auch bei Office auf Mac.Dirk Knop (heise online)