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Office 365 on Windows 7 gets free patches until 2023

Customers who continue to power PCs with Windows 7 after the operating system's expiration date will be given one more update to Office 365 ProPlus - the application soul of the subscription service - before shutting down the feature pipeline.

But Office 365 ProPlus - the application stack that's part of most business plans - will receive security updates long after Windows 7's retirement on Jan. 14. How long after? Three years after.

The arrangement - "no" to new features but "yes" to vulnerability patches - was unusual enough to upend the typical definition of "support."

"Office 365 ProPlus won't be supported on Windows 7 after January 14, 2020," Microsoft plainly stated in a support document last revised less than two weeks ago.

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Review: Two weeks with a 16-in. MacBook Pro

I&ve been fortunate enough to spend a couple of weeks using one of Applenew 16-inch MacBook Pros, and I have a few thoughts to share on the new high-end notebook.

For the record: I've been using the pricier $2,799 model, which comes with a 2.3GHz, 8-core Intel Core i9 chip, anAMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory,16GB of 2666MHz DDR4 memory and a 1TB SSD. The laptop was supplied for review purposes by Apple.

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Android security checkup: 16 steps to a safer phone

Android security is always a hot topic on these here Nets of Inter — and almost always for the wrong reason.

As we've discussed ad nauseam over the years, most of the missives you read about this-or-that super-scary malware/virus/brain-eating-boogie-monster are overly sensationalized accounts tied to theoretical threats with practically zero chance of actually affecting you in the real world. If you look closely, in fact, you'll start to notice that the vast majority of those stories stem from companies that — gasp! — make their money selling malware protection programs for Android phones. (Pure coincidence, right?)

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DOS-si-do

Back in 1993, for those who weren&t around, Windows still ran on top of DOS. At the time, this pilot fish is a consultant, installing a new laser printer for a customer. But the Windows 3.1 computer won&t install all the drivers from the floppy. (Kids, you might want to check Wikipedia on that one, too.)

So fish gets on his CompuServ account (yeah, this Tank is a regular time machine), finds the driver is available, and downloads it. But the driver won&t load because it is finding remnants of the old driver in the Windows/drivers folder.

Fish then does a dir aa*.* (where &aa& is the prefix of the drivers) and gets a listing. He does a cursory scan to be sure there isn&t anything else in the list that would cause a problem if deleted — and promptly enters del *.* instead of del aa*.*.

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Why We Need More Women Of Color In Tech
Meet the women making products for people the tech world forgot.
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Facebook Rebuffs U.S. Attorney General Over Access To Encrypted Messages
End-to-end encryption locks up messages so that not even Facebook can read their contents.
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