OneDrive for Android Updated
OneDrive for Android has been updated to include support for Android wear, the operating system running on Google watches. The update so far ads only cosmetic functionality enabling OneDrive watch face on your Android Wear watch, so that each time you activate the watch, you’ll see one of your photos from the last 30 days.
It is expected in the future that Android wear devices will get more OneDrive functionality added, most likely the voice search feature available on Windows Phone.
May Updates for Surface Pro line
This week there are Surface Pro specific hardware updates available:
Surface Pro 3
The following updates will be listed as “System Firmware Update – 5/19/2015″ in Windows Update.
Surface Pro 3 UEFI update (v3.11.850.0) includes changes needed for compatibility with the updated graphics driver noted below.
HD Graphics Family driver update (v10.18.14.4170) improves graphics performance and includes better Miracast (wireless display) support.
Display Audio driver update (v6.16.00.3172) improves audio experience and supports compatibility with the updated graphics driver.
Surface Pro 2
The following updates will be listed as “System Firmware Update – 5/19/2015″ in Windows Update.
Surface Pro UEFI update (v2.5.250.0) includes changes needed for compatibility with the updated graphics driver noted below.
HD Graphics Family driver update (v10.18.14.4170) improves graphic performance and includes better Miracast (wireless display) support.
Display Audio driver update (v6.16.00.3172) improves audio experience and supports compatibility with the updated graphics driver.
OneNote for iPad updated
OneNote for iPad been updated with the ability to search your handwritten notes for text, just as you can already search for text in actual text and in images. Handwriting recognition works in 25 languages, with more coming in the future.
In addition to this Microsoft has updated the menu to be more familiar to the OneNote for iPhone experience, you can now easily swipe from the left to view the drawer where you can view all your notebooks, open or create notebooks, reorder and close notebooks. Additionally, you can now more easily access and manage your accounts and app settings in this all-new user interface. This makes all the ideas and information you keep in OneNote more convenient to recall.
Adobe plugs critical bugs in Reader, Acrobat and Flash Player
This week, Adobe patched multiple critical vulnerabilities affecting Flash Player, Reader and Acrobat.
Flash for Windows, Macintosh and Linux users resolved 18 unique bugs, an Adobe security bulletin revealed, including four memory corruption vulnerabilities and a heap overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution. An integer overflow bug, type confusion vulnerability and use-after-free vulnerability were also among the plugged holes, which could allow code execution if left open.
Thirty four fixes were applied to Adobe Reader and Acrobat were also addressed on Tuesday.
Source: Adobe
Apple Updates Safari Web browser
Safari 8.0.6, Safari 7.1.6, and Safari 6.2.6 have all received an update to malicious websites to terminate an application or execute arbitrary code. A separate state management bug in the WebKit History could have allowed a malicious website to compromise user information in the filesystem and was fixed through improved state management.
Source: Apple
Office 2016 Preview widely available
Available in a VERY early form previously the Office 2016 Preview is now available to anyone wishing to test it. Both Office 365 and on premises Office users can test the new versions of Word, Excel, Outlook etc.
Of course this software should not used in your production environment, but it is a stable release and suitable for use in most test environments.
Source: Microsoft
capitalregionit 