Microsoft has suddenly disabled Equation Editor 3 in Office for "security reasons" and in order to force you to buy new Office 365 / 2019 they don't even offer a way to convert your equations to the new format. Another option is to buy the expensive MathType. Look here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/editing-equations-created-using-microsoft-equation-editor-08a44b8c-ae15-41a7-bc15-7239890c0cec#ID0EAADAAA=Office_2016,_2013,_or_2010 This is really really annoying but fortunately I found a way to convert to the new equation editor format for free using the great open source LibreOffice : Make sure that you have enabled Mathtype conversion in LibreOffice settings Open your Word document in LibreOffice Save your document as Microsoft Word .docx Open the converted document in Word to see that it has been converted Thank LibreOffice for offering you this great feature for free!!! "Thank" Microsoft for making your life as hard as possible and think a
Dell was very fast to release BIOS updates (version A21) just a few days after the Meltdown / Spectre disaster became public. So I installed them on all of our Dell 9020 PCs and M4800 notebooks and I thought that everything was fine as I had automatic Windows Updates enabled... But then I noticed that the required Windows Meltdown / Spectre Update KB4056892 was not installed for some reason. So I decided to run the Meltdown / Spectre PowerShell test script released by Microsoft and the surprise was that everything showed up in red, i.e. nothing was patched, not even the BIOS! Then I suspected Kaspersky that might be preventing the Windows update from installing because I read about some AV conflicts. But Kaspersky did really fine this time - it had set the registry key allowing the update to install correctly on all computers. So what was the problem? Microsoft is the problem as usual! I had set some GPO to prevent preview builds and feature updates from installing immediat