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Tomorrow Will Be A Busy Day For Windows Users

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ms_logoApril 8th’s Patch Tuesday marks:
The end of official Windows XP support.
See eXPired – The Last Windows XP Guide You’ll Ever Need and other XP articles.
Official support ends for Office 2003 too.
Be sure to update them TOMORROW.

Windows 8.1 Update 1 will also be released.
In some of the Geekier forums some folks have reported issues with this update. I don’t know if it’s the update itself, a bad download, or failure to follow the install order (RTM and MDSN had manual downloads).
I would advise folks to either:
1 – Backup their computer before taking this update.
or
2 – Wait a few days to see what is being said around the web about this update.

All other currently supported Windows will have a few critical updates:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2014

FYI, Patch Tuesday updates are released around 1300 hrs EST  (1000 hrs PST, 1700 hrs UTC).

In addition, Adobe usually release their security updates on Patch Tuesday.
Tomorrow have a look at: http://helpx.adobe.com/security.html

Classic Shell 4.0.5

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classicshell_newClassic Shell 4.0.5 has been released.
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Classic Shell has been around for  4 years.
It has recently attracted attention from a wider audience because of its Start Menu add on/replacement called Classic Start Menu.
IMHO it is the best freeware Windows 8 start menu program.

Version 4.0.5 general release (Mar, 2014):
Improved support for high resolution displays
Improved support for touch displays
New button for the Explorer toolbar to toggle the navigation pane
Added support for animated start buttons
Multiple minor improvements and bugfixes

openSUSE Moves To Rolling KDE Releases

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opensusegeekoFor those that like the latest KDE releases, openSUSE has just made that easier. They’ve added a “rolling release” repo.
See: Raymond Wooninck – Moving to a rolling KDE release repository
The new repos are:
KDE – http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Current/openSUSE_13.1/
KDE Extra – http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra/KDE_Current_openSUSE_13.1/
To switch to the repos use the “switch system packages” option in YaST.
See: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Vendor_change_update#Full_repository_Vendor_change
(if you use Packman be sure to use this method on the Packman repo after your initial update)
You can follow all the latest KDE release news here.