Davos, Switzerland, 24 January 2019: Global e-waste production is on track to reach 120 million tonnes per year by 2050 if current trends continue, according to a report from the Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE) and the UN E-Waste Coalition released at Davos today.
DELAY!!! IMPORTANT UPDATE: The next data reporting period is January 1, 2024 through March 31, 2024, will be based on the original data collection period of January 1, 2019 through June 30, 2019.
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Although the overall Microsoft security strategy is firmly focused on a password-less future, many customers cannot migrate away from passwords for the short-to-medium term. Some security-conscious customers want to be able to configure a default domain minimum password length setting that is greater than 14 characters (for example, customers might do this after educating their users to use longer passphrases instead of the traditional short, single token passwords). In support of this request, Windows Updates in April 2018 for Windows Server 2016 enabled a Group Policy change that increased the minimum password length from 14 to 20 characters. While this change appeared to support longer password, it was ultimately insufficient and rejected the new value when the Group Policy was applied. These rejections were silent and required detailed testing to determine that the system was not supporting longer passwords. A follow-up update to the Security Account Manager (SAM) layer was included for both Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 in order to enable the system to correctly work end-to-end with a minimum password length greater than 14-characters. A follow-up update to the Security Account Manager (SAM) layer was included for both Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2019 in order to enable the system to correctly work end-to-end with a minimum password length greater than 14-characters.
Exposed issues when domains that consists of a mix of the release version of Windows Server 2019 or updated 2016 DCs that support greater than 14-character passwords and pre-Windows Server 2016 DCs that do not support greater than 14-character passwords (until backports exist and are installed for Windows Server 2016).
Mainstream support for Windows XP ended on April 14, 2009, and extended support ended on April 8, 2014. Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, based on Windows XP Professional, received security updates until April 2019. After that, unofficial methods were made available to apply the updates to other editions of Windows XP. Still, Microsoft discouraged this practice, citing compatibility issues.[9] However, over eight years from the end of life date (September 2022), the majority of PCs in some countries (such as Armenia) still appeared to be running on Windows XP.[10] As of September 2022[update], globally, just 0.39% of Windows PCs[11] and 0.1% of all devices across all platforms continued to run Windows XP.
The maximum amount of RAM that Windows XP can support varies depending on the product edition and the processor architecture. All 32-bit editions of XP support up to 4 GB, except the Windows XP Starter edition, which supports up to 512 MB of RAM.[107] 64-bit editions support up to 128 GB.[108]
Variants of Windows XP for embedded systems have different support policies: Windows XP Embedded SP3 and Windows Embedded for Point of Service SP3 were supported until January and April 2016, respectively. Windows Embedded Standard 2009, which was succeeded by Windows Embedded Standard 7, and Windows Embedded POSReady 2009, which was succeeded by Windows Embedded POSReady 7, were supported until January and April 2019, respectively.[116] These updates, while intended for the embedded editions, could also be downloaded on standard Windows XP with a registry hack, which enabled unofficial patches until April 2019. However, Microsoft advised Windows XP users against installing these fixes, citing incompatibility issues.[9][117]
Researchers reported in August 2019 that Windows 10 users may be at risk for "critical" system compromise because of design flaws of hardware device drivers from multiple providers.[142] In the same month, computer experts reported that the BlueKeep security vulnerability, CVE-2019-0708, that potentially affects older unpatched Microsoft Windows versions via the program's Remote Desktop Protocol, allowing for the possibility of remote code execution, may now include related flaws, collectively named DejaBlue, affecting newer Windows versions (i.e., Windows 7 and all recent versions) as well.[143] In addition, experts reported a Microsoft security vulnerability, CVE-2019-1162, based on legacy code involving Microsoft CTF and ctfmon (ctfmon.exe), that affects all Windows versions from the older Windows XP version to the most recent Windows 10 versions; a patch to correct the flaw is currently available.[144]
Microsoft announced in July 2019 that the Microsoft Internet Games services on Windows XP and Windows Me would end on July 31, 2019 (and for Windows 7 on January 22, 2020).[145] Others, such as Steam, had done the same, ending support for Windows XP and Windows Vista in January 2019.[146]
As of September 2022[update], in most regions or continents, Windows XP market share on PCs, as a fraction of the total Windows share, has gone below 1% (0.5% in Africa[158]). XP still has a double-digit market share in a few countries, such as Armenia at over 50%,[159][160][161][162] at 57%, where Windows 7 was highest ranked, and with it being replaced by Windows 10, Windows XP got highest ranked for the longest time, and had over 60% share on some weekends in the summer of 2019.[163][164]
Affected units were manufactured between January 2019 and October 2019. This is not a safety issue and Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider will replace eligible battery cases, free of charge.
December 2019 URM-84927This enhancement allows you to index full text that has been added as content to Alma digital representations so that users can find digital records based on this information. Primo VE will index up to 10,000 words, excluding stop words.
December 2019 URM-112836This enhancement allows you to create deep search scopes so that users can search the catalogs of other Primo VE institutions that have provided access to your institution. When a remote scope is searched, the local institution will send a query to the remote institution so that its results can be displayed to users as part of their search results.
December 2019 URM-70105This enhancement allows you to display electronic material in Virtual Browse, which currently displays physical items that appear together on a virtual bookshelf. To support this functionality, Browse Search will allow you to include call numbers from bibliographic headings, not just holdings.
December 2019This enhancement allows you to expose your library's unique materials to search engines (such as Google) so that users are directed back your Primo VE interface. Sitemap files allow Web crawling tools (such as Google) to find Primo records that are dynamic (as a result of search queries) and to index them. The Primo Sitemap tool externalizes these links for indexing by generating site map files for each Primo view, which includes one or more of its search scopes. You can define up to three sitemap files that allow you create back links to different views or domain names within your Primo VE environment.
November 2019 URM-60159This enhancement allows users to browse for journals by selecting specific categories/subcategories listed in the Journals by Category section of the Journal Search page. The categories are populated using the mapping of the journal LCC numbers to a three-level hierarchy adapted from Columbia's Hierarchical Interface to LC Classification (HILCC).
The new Creates Journal Categories File job runs once daily to create/update the categories/subcategories that appear in Journal Search. The system creates a maximum of three category levels.
November 2019 URM-111211This enhancement adds the Sort by drop-down list to every Collections page to allow users to sort the collection's items by relevance or title. By default, the items are sorted by relevance.
November 2019 URM-78033For records that contain multilingual content, this enhancement allows you to display a field's terms based on the user's preferred language. Previously, the system displayed terms for all languages in the facets and the record's details.
November 2019 URM-103161This enhancement allows you to add a Requester Note field to the Patron Purchase Request form, which will allow the user to specify additional information regarding the requested item.
November 2019 URM-104598The Use Translations option on the Define a Local Field page (Configuration Menu > Discovery > Display Configuration > Manage Display and Local Fields) has been enhanced to allow translations based on specific subfield values instead of the union of all subfield values for local display and facet fields.
November 2019 URM-109727Per customer feedback, the Newspaper Search link under the Resource Type facet has been moved to the bottom of the list and aligned with the other facet values to improve its appearance and usability:
November 2019 URM-88420Performance improvements were made to the facets area by optimizing the calculation of the New Records facet. As part of this optimization, the counters for the New Records facet will no longer display.
November 2019 URM-98959Customers have indicated that our permalinks for records are too lengthy and are not easily sent to users, especially when sending text messages using a service such as Ask Us!. With this feature, the Send To action Permalink, which appears on both the Brief and Full Display pages, will now create a shortened URL that includes the institution code, record ID, and a key: 2ff7e9595c
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