MS: $4,000 for Daylight Saving Fix
Customers using Microsoft products that have entered their "Extended" support phase will need to fork over $4,000 for a patch that makes the software compatible with the new March 11 date for Daylight Saving Time (DST), according to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
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1.3.2007 Updates from the Microsoft Daylight Saving patch trenches
It's going to be a busy weekend for IT administrators still struggling to get their systems patched to handle the change to Daylight Saving Time (DST) on March 11.
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10.3.2007 Linux beats Windows 2008 power-saving measures
Ensuring your servers stamp as small a carbon footprint as possible on the earth and in your datacenter can encompass everything from making sure they are shipped in recyclable packaging to hiring an analyst who can predict the total lifecycle environmental impact.
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10.6.2008 Download Windows 7 RTM Power Saving Boost Update for AMD Multicore CPUs
Microsoft has made available for download an update designed to boost power-saving capabilities for the latest Windows client and server releases.
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12.10.2009Microsoft Preps for Daylight-Saving Time Headaches
Microsoft is taking steps to ease the transition back from daylight-saving time.
Microsoft is trying to ensure that when
daylight-saving time ends and Americans turn the clock back in the first week of November, the experience is seamless.
That was
not the case on March 11, when daylight-saving time started three weeks earlier than usual.
It will also end a week later than
usual, on Nov. 4, as a result of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, which extended daylight-saving time by a month in the United States, and came into
effect in 2007.
For those companies that do business in other parts of the world, the pain is not yet over. As much of the United
States and Canada "fall back" in November, there are going to be changes happening in Jordan, Egypt and New Zealand that were not planned in the
spring.
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14.09.2007MS: $4,000 for Daylight Saving Fix
Customers using Microsoft
products that have entered
their "Extended"
support phase will need to
fork over $4,000 for a patch
that makes the software
compatible with the new March
11 date for Daylight Saving
Time (DST), according to
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo
Foley...
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28.02.2007Western Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Windows
Western Australia is
introducing daylight saving
for a trial period commencing
December 3, 2006. Several
Microsoft products require
updates in order to display
the correct time during the
daylight saving period.
Western Australia is
introducing daylight saving on
a trial basis for the next
three years.
Microsoft products which are
aware of daylight saving time
changes need to be updated to
include the new Western
Australia time zone rules.
The following table shows
the start and end dates for
the daylight saving period in
each year of the trial
Start /
End
the hour of 2
a.m. on 03 Dec 2006 / the hour
of 2 a.m. on 25 March 2007
the hour of 2 a.m. on 28 Oct
2007 / the hour of 2 a.m. on
30 March 2008
the hour of
2 a.m. on 26 Oct 2008 / the
hour of 2 a.m. on 29 March
2009
Note: Both the
start and end time are
specified in standard time, so
the end time is 3 am daylight
saving time.
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06.12.2006Australia Daylight Saving - Revised Announcement - February 2008
Australia Eastern (New South Wales, Victoria, Australia Capital Territory and Tasmania) and Central (South Australia) time zones will extend daylight
saving and also harmonise start and end times commencing April 2008. From April 2008, daylight saving will end on the first Sunday in April and
recommence on the first Sunday in October in all states.
This change will affect Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Outlook and
other Microsoft, third party and custom applications:
- All Microsoft Windows PC, server and mobile devices in the affected time
zones will need to be updated.
- Microsoft Office Outlook calendars may need to be adjusted. Client and Server-based tools to automate this
process are available from the Microsoft Download Centre.
- Microsoft, third party and custom applications which schedule events at future
dates should be reviewed to ensure they will operate correctly during the extended daylight saving period. Previously scheduled events may also need
to be adjusted.
- Microsoft recommends that all PC and server systems are updated regardless of location to ensure consistency of
operation.
The
Australia 2008 Daylight Saving Planning
Guide is now available for download.
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06.02.2008FAQ: What the daylight saving shift means to you
Editor's note: This FAQ was originally published last spring. It's been updated to account for the fall changing of the clocks.
The fact that the U.S. is "falling back" a week late has left some folks with a few headaches, along with an unwarranted extra hour of
sleep.
Daylight saving time, which ordinarily would have kicked in last week, won't take place until next week. Congress is to
thank (or blame) for the change, which also meant daylight saving time started two weeks early. The thing is, computers weren't programmed with
legislative intent in mind. Many gadget and software makers have issued patches to adjust to the change, though not everyone has installed the
changes, and even people whose systems are now patched could see some calendar items showing up an hour off.
Here's a list of
some commonly asked questions and answers regarding the time shift.
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29.10.2007Fujitsu Launches Dual-Core Workstations
Systems feature AMD's Opteron chips and power-saving technology...
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31.08.2005Office Improves PDF Support
Microsoft describes new file
saving options, formats in
forthcoming Office 12...
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04.10.2005Creating, Saving, Sharing Themes in Windows 7
Steven Sinofsky: With Windows 7 we picked a group of settings that we believe represent the most satisfying settings to broadly personalize, and would
also provide the most robust platform that maintains application compatibility, and made those easy to change. In addition we wanted to make it easy
to package up those settings so you could save and share them. We think of this as the start of bringing robust personalization (and customization)
to a broader set of customers. Katie Frigon, a program manager on the core user experience team, authored this post.
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03.06.2009Microsoft disabling Word 2003's 'fast save' feature
Microsoft is killing off a feature in Office 2003 that the company said helped save time, but also ran the risk of exposing confidential
information.
As part of Service Pack 3 of Office 2003, which will be available Tuesday as a free download from Microsoft's Web site,
Microsoft is disabling Word 2003's "fast save" feature, which works by saving the changes made since the last save, rather than rewriting the whole
document to disk.
"While the Fast Save feature speeds up the document-saving process by saving only the changes made to a document, the
saved document may contain metadata, such as comments, erased text, previous versions, and authorship," Microsoft said in a white paper on the
update. "Disabling Fast Save ensures that confidential data is protected against improper disclosure."
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18.09.2007Time flies: DST ends Nov. 4 -- are your systems ready?
Remember all the patches, hassles and worries your IT department experienced at the start of daylight-saving time in March?
Well,
it's time to revisit some of that work -- particularly if your company has international partners or customers.
That's because
several other countries -- including Jordan, Egypt and New Zealand -- adopted their own specific daylight-saving time updates since the time change
took place in the U.S. last spring, meaning companies might want to update their patches again to ensure conformity when clocks spring forward next
year. But first, companies have to deal with the return to standard time in most parts of the U.S. Clocks roll back an hour on Sunday, Nov. 4.
Ray Wang, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. in Cambridge, Mass., said that only companies with a large global presence need to
run daylight-saving time updates for their applications and systems again. "Forrester believes this is the safest approach for those with
international employees, especially those in Jordan, New Zealand, as well as Australia. It will apply to any person, device, or system that has
authentication requirements, time stamp scenarios
events in calendaring software like those in PDAs."
winbeta.org - 10.10.2007
12 Time-Saving Tips for Microsoft Word
Samuel Dean: Despite the availability of many excellent, free word processors many of us still spend most of our writing time in Microsoft Word. It tends to be the most compatible tool
you can choose to exchange documents with others, and lots of people are even forced to use it by dictatorial IT departments. In this post, Ill round
up some good tips that can make you more productive and save you lots of time in Word.
winbeta.org - 23.02.2008
Daylight Saving Time Update Available For XP SP2 & SP3
Looks like we've got our first XP SP3 update although this was expected as Microsoft had previously announced that the DST update would not be included with
SP3.
Installing this update enables your computer to automatically adjust the computer clock on the correct date in 2007 and
2008 due to revised Daylight Saving Time laws in many countries. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
winbeta.org - 22.04.2008
The storm hits AT&T, with a five-digit headcount reduction
This morning, the newly-demoted second-largest US phone carrier announced it's getting smaller still, shedding four percent of its workforce in
another cost-saving operation for the economic recession...
betanews.com - 04.12.2008
Microsoft Gives Customers Something to Fall Back On
Q&A: Rich Kaplan discusses the second part of the Daylight Saving Time extension to come in North America, lessons learned from Marchs spring
forward, and the effects these changes have on customers around the world...
microsoft.com/presspass - 10.09.2007
Greener Gadgets: Are people really saving money with 'green PCs?'
Panelists pondered the economic pros and cons of newer and more "energy-efficient" computers, voicing decidedly mixed opinions.
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betanews.com - 06.03.2009
Earlier DST Has Had Minimal Energy Effect
Having Daylight Saving Time
start a month earlier than
normal was supposed to help
conserve energy, but early
indications are that the
change did not make much of a
difference...
betanews.com - 04.04.2007
Is the Atom saving Intel?
Falling consumer demand for PCs is triggering declining orders for CPUs, Intel admitted yesterday, but not across the board. As it turns out, its
smallest consumer processor may be the mightiest of all this year...
betanews.com - 16.01.2009
OpenDoc in Microsoft Office a
Reality
The OpenDocument Foundation
has created a plug-in that
will allow for seamless
opening and saving of
documents in the ODF format
within Office. It disclosed
its work after the state of
Massachusetts requested such a
plug-in be developed...
betanews.com - 05.05.2006
Microsoft releasing Office 2003 SP3 Tuesday, disabling Word 2003's 'fast save' feature
Microsoft is killing off a feature in Office 2003 that the company said helped save time, but also ran the risk of exposing confidential
information.
As part of Service Pack 3 of Office 2003, which will be available Tuesday as a free download from Microsoft's Web
site, Microsoft is disabling Word 2003's "fast save" feature, which works by saving the changes made since the last save, rather than rewriting the
whole document to disk.
"While the Fast Save feature speeds up the document-saving process by saving only the changes made to a
document, the saved document may contain metadata, such as comments, erased text, previous versions, and authorship," Microsoft said in a white paper
on the update. "Disabling Fast Save ensures that confidential data is protected against improper disclosure."
The change is
part of what is expected to be the last major update to Office 2003. Service Pack 3 comes nine months after the broad release of Office 2007. It also
includes a number of fixes and security enhancements and is designed to work better than prior Office 2003 versions with Windows Vista and Internet
Explorer 7. Microsoft still recommends large businesses test the software to make sure it plays nice with their collection of software.
winbeta.org - 18.09.2007
New Microsoft Antitrust
Oversight to go?
The Wall Street
Journal reports that
Adobe is ready to sue
Microsoft over the two
competing actions Microsoft
did over the last year: its
XML Paper Specification,
code-named Metro, now simply
named XPS and direct PDF
competitor, and full PDF
support into Windows Vista and
Microsoft Office 2007.
Back in October
2005, Microsoft had announced
that it planned to add in a
PDF saving support right into
Office 2007. Microsoft now
says something totally
different: Microsoft never
planned to integrate PDF
support into the various
Office applications, but would
instead have planned to offer
support for its own format,
XPS. The PDF saving output is
still present in the recently
released public Beta 2 version
of the product, though this
should change by the next
refresh build.
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