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• Understanding CVE

  Posted on January 27, 2025 at 02:21 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  

  By Susan Bradley

  Vendors track issues using the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database.

  Maintenance of the database is handled by the MITRE Corporation under the sponsorship of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), part of the US Department of Homeland Security. It has been operating since 1999. In 2021, MITRE launched a new website with the domain cve.org and with new features and capabilities.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (22.04.0, 2025-01-27).

  Patch Watch CISA, CVE, CVE-2025-21309, Documentation, Newsletters, Outlook, Outlook (classic), Outlook (new), Patch Lady Posts, Windows Mail

• Five reasons not to use the new Outlook

  Posted on March 11, 2024 at 02:43 CDT by Peter Deegan • Comment in the Forums

  MICROSOFT 365

  

  By Peter Deegan

  Outlook (new) for Windows is being over-promoted.

  When Microsoft pushes this hard, you might think you must change now. I’ll give you five reasons to stay with your current Outlook, at least for now. And I’ll offer some tips for keeping your current email app, despite a pushy Microsoft.

  “Outlook (new)” is the name Microsoft uses at the moment. (It’s Microsoft, so “for Windows” is assumed). For this article, in an attempt to avoid confusion, I’ll call the current Outlook for Windows “classic Outlook,” by which I mean the traditional desktop version of Outlook.

  Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.11.0, 2024-03-11).

  Microsoft 365 Classic Outlook, Newsletters, Outlook, Outlook (new), Outlook Mobile, Windows Calendar, Windows Mail

• How to delete password from Windows UWP (“Metro”) Mail app?

  Posted on May 23, 2016 at 16:13 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Interesting question from JS:

  Have just finished reading Windows 10 All in One and have not found the answer to this problem. When I started up my new computer running Windows 10 (before I found and read the book) I must have done something so that Mail grabbed information from my google- based account at the University of Michigan which I typically access through Firefox. The accounts seem synced. Now Mail has my password there front and center and goes directly to my e-mail whereas in my UMich account I have to enter it whenever I sign on. I would prefer to put my password in only when I want to use the mail universal app rather than having my e-mail seemingly open to anyone. How do I get Mail to forget the password?

  I’ve tried going to the account settings and I couldn’t find a way to do it. I tried deleting that account and setting it up again but it insists on having the password “so you don’t have to sign in every time.” For the moment I’ve just deleted the Windows 10 Mail account totally which sort of defeats the purpose of having the tiles there in the first place. When I did that all sorts of bells and whistles and flashing signals went off telling me I needed Windows Defender or McAfee. I already have both of them. Wild.

  Anybody out there ever hit this? We aren’t talking about a Microsoft account, but a Google account (which may also be a Microsoft account, not clear).

  Windows News Windows Mail

• Windows 10 Fast Ring build 10547 boasts some useful improvements

  Posted on September 21, 2015 at 08:00 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Scuttlebut on the web says there’s a new consolidated Inbox in Windows Mail, but I can’t find it.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows News Build 10547, Windows 10, Windows Mail

• OK to update the Junk Email Filter?

  Posted on March 20, 2009 at 07:53 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Reader BS writes:

  I have Vista Home Premium. Thanks for the blanket OK to install updates for Windows Defender and the Malicious Software Removal Tool, but what about Windows Mail Junk Email Filter?

  I never used Outlook or Outlook Express or anything MS email related. Should I update these?

  If you don’t use Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Outlook or Outlook Express, you don’t need to update the junk email filter. But I wouldn’t lose any sleep over it. The updates are generally innocuous.

  Office Patches/Security, Windows Patches/Security Junk Email Filter, Outlook, outlook express, update, Windows Mail