Windows 10 patch KB 3055415 released with no details

No KB, no explanation, no warning. Reboot required.

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Windows patch KB 3045999 conflicts with McAfee (error c0000018), Romax, VirtualBox

It’s taken nearly two weeks to piece this one together, but it looks like KB 3045999 is another stinker.

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Microsoft acknowledges — but doesn’t fix — KB 3038314 installer fail with error 80092004

And we still haven’t heard about KB 3038314 preventing you from adding search engines to IE 11.

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Updated for build 10061: Where Windows 10 stands right now

Bunch of new goodies in build 10061, including strong Mail and Calendar apps.

Amazingly so.

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Optional Windows 8.1 update KB 3022345 fails to install with error 800F0922

There’s another reason why we’re still at MS-DEFCON 2. 

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How Windows 10 could launch by July

I stick my neck out again, and predict a release candidate – or at least a quantum jump in beta builds – at Build next week.

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Recent third party patches

This was just posted as a comment by WL (no, the other WL):

Recent third party patches:

1) Google Chrome has a major update to 42.0.2311.90 on April 14, with many changes.
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2015/04/stable-channel-update_14.html

After months of weaning users away from NPAPI support for security, this version (42) finally disables NPAPI support by default. So if some of your plugins stop working (e.g. Java, Shockwave Player, others), you may want to learn how to temporarily re-enable them via this flag:
chrome://flags/#enable-npapi

Note, the drop dead date is September 2015 (version 45), when NPAPI support will be removed – and this override will no longer work.

http://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/14/google_java_chrome_42/

http://java.com/en/download/faq/chrome.xml

2) The latest Flash Player is 17.0.0.169 for most browsers.
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

P.S. If you use Chrome, you re-enabled NPAPI support, AND you manually updated Flash (e.g. for other browsers like Firefox), remember to specifically disable the NPAPI Flash Player plugin in Chrome, so only one Flash plugin is running, to avoid instability.
chrome://plugins

P.P.S. I notice that the buggy behavior in displaying the plugins page has cropped back up & worsened in this version. So, if your page/list of plugins seems incomplete/cut off, toggle the “+Details” link at the top right, until you get the full list (i.e. so you see the vertical scroll bar). However, if you scroll down and AGAIN lose control of the page (e.g. won’t scroll, so you can’t go further down nor go back up to the “+Details” link), then refresh the page to “fix”. Sigh ….

3) Java JRE goes to 8u45 (1.8.0_45-b14) on April 13
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u45-relnotes-2494160.html

4) Firefox has a major update to 37.x (currently 37.0.1 on April 3)
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/37.0.1/releasenotes/

5) If anyone knows of any other major third party updates, please add to this list ….

Win7-to-Win10 patch KB 2952664 triggers daily telemetry run in Windows 7 — and may be snooping on users

I didn’t believe it until I saw it.

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Where Windows 10 stands right now

What, you haven’t installed every Technical Preview release, every leaked build, and you haven’t read every article about Windows 10 so far?

Unlax. This will bring you up to date.

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Microsoft to release massive set of 34 non-security patches Tuesday

Some are hotfixes, but many are just undocumented at this point.

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IE11 patch KB 3038314 blocks search engines, installer may fail with error 80092004

Yep, you read that right. If you install KB 3038314, you won’t be able to add Google as a search provider to IE.

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Outlook patches KB 2965295, KB 2965270 cause Calendar problems, sync freezes, lockouts

KB 2956128 and KB 2956203 raise their ugly heads again, too.

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