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Actually, you can get all of the Office cloud fonts on a plain Win10/11 system, without having any Microsoft Office.

The secret is that the little Mail app that comes pre-installed with Windows also supports the Office cloud fonts! Just open up Mail, add an account, and start to compose a new message. As you pick each font with a cloud icon from the drop-down (remember to cycle through the bold and italic options for each), that font is immediately (no need to start typing) added to the AppData folder mentioned above.

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Cybertooth

Fun fact: in the Gregorian Calendar, the 13th day of a month is more likely to be a Friday than any other day of the week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th#Occurrence

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Cybertooth, Kirsty, OscarCP

Here’s the reply from Nick Francesco:

Everybody thinks they’re SO clever about this, and they’re catching me out because they got something labeled a security update. I will reiterate what I have said from day one, and I hope you will read the entire thing this time:

 

Microsoft Windows 7 ended mainstream support on 13 Jan 15. Extended support will continue until 14 Jan 20. That means you no longer can get support from Microsoft by phone or on their Web site (although many articles can still be found), and you will only receive security updates that fit the old architecture in Windows 7. Which means you’re getting about half the security updates that Windows 10 users get. Which means you’re vulnerable. Very.

 

Please don’t write to me about this again.

 

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Cascadian

CVE-2017-6250 is a separate issue. This is about CVE-2017-0341 thru -0355, which does affect the driver itself.

Woody, when you write “GeForce drivers should be at 10.18.13.8205 or later.”, it might be necessary to explain how to decode NVIDIA’s non-intuitive versioning. In this case, it’s the last five digits that are important (10.18.13.8205). My driver, for example, is 22.21.13.8205.

The NVIDIA bulletin says “The driver version can be deciphered as shown in the following examples: 10.18.13.6472 is 364.72 and 10.18.13.472 is 304.72”

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GoneToPlaid, jelson

It’s the video driver itself. The NVIDIA Security Bulletin refers to “the kernel mode layer (nvlddmkm.sys) handler”. You can check for the file in C:\\Windows\System32\Drivers.

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