Category Archives: Software

PDFCreator from pdfforge no longer free for corporate environments from version 6.0.0

Posted on 2025-04-20 by guenni

[German]Today a short note for administrators in corporate environments who use the PDFCreator from pdfforge on their Windows clients. The developer has made a change to the software for creating PDF documents. As a result, this software can no longer … Continue reading →

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WordPress 6.8 released

Posted on 2025-04-16 by guenni

WordPress 6.8 was released on April 15, 2025. The announcement of this version can be found here. The update should bring some improvements and speed up websites.

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Mozilla's Thundermail and Pro as an alternative to Gmail and Office365

Posted on 2025-04-16 by guenni

[German]Exciting information that became known at the beginning of April 2025. Mozilla wants to introduce Thundermail and Pro services. The aim is to offer an open source alternative to Gmail and Office365 that focuses on data protection, reducing dependencies and … Continue reading →

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Windows PCs at risk from WhatsApp flaw (CVE-2025-30401)

Posted on 2025-04-12 by guenni

[German]A vulnerability in WhatsApp for Windows (before version 2.2450.6) puts Windows computers at risk. The vulnerability could allow attackers to execute malicious code via WhatsApp message attachments on Windows.

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Microsoft Teams clients older than 90 days will soon be blocked; here are the details

Posted on 2025-04-11 by guenni

[German]Microsoft had already pointed out in December 2023 that the Microsoft Teams client is subject to the Modern Lifecycle Policy. This policy requires that the latest version of the client application is always used. Clients older than 90 days without … Continue reading →

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Office 2016 update KB5002623 fixes crashes in Excel, Outlook, Word (April 10, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-10 by guenni

[German]With the Office 2016 update KB5002700 from April 8, 2025, users are facing problems with Office 2016 applications. The update caused crashes in Excel, Outlook and Word. On April 10, 2025, Microsoft released the KB5002623 update for Office 2016, which … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 Family subscription reported as "cancelled" (April 10, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-10 by guenni

[German]If your Microsoft 365 Family subscription is currently "jerking", it could be Microsoft again. At the very least, Microsoft has stated that it is aware of a problem with "Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions". Specifically, there are more and more reports … Continue reading →

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Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (April 8, 2025)

Posted on 2025-04-10 by guenni

[German]On April 8, 2020 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for Microsoft Office 2016, as well as the C2R variants (Office 2016-2021 and 365) and other products. Below you will find an overview of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365: Outlook Error [58tm1]

Posted on 2025-04-07 by guenni

[German]Early February 2025 I came across a post in an administrator group on Facebook where an administrator is talking about the Outlook error "Something didn't work [58tm1]" in Microsoft 365. The error seems to occur frequently.

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Microsoft increases prices for on-premises servers and Power BI

Posted on 2025-04-04 by guenni

[German]Keine Überraschung für Nutzer von Microsofts Produkten. Redmond erhöht die Preise für seine On-Premises Server-Produkte am 1. Juli 2025 um 10%. Und auch Power BI ist am 1. April 2025 wohl drastisch (bis zu 40 %) teurer geworden, wie ich … Continue reading →

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