Australian Daylight Savings Changes for Microsoft Products for the Year 2006
Overview
The Commonwealth Games are scheduled to be held during March 2006 in Melbourne Australia. Several Australian states including New South Wales, Victoria, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Tasmania, have changed the Daylight Savings transition end dates to the first Sunday of April 2006.
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20.12.2005 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 Patch Tuesday for September 2009
Microsoft's Security Bulletin for September contains five critical bulletins for release on Tuesday to block Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities in Windows operating systems.
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5.9.2009 Microsoft Patch Tuesday for November 2009: six bulletins
Microsoft will release six security bulletins this Tuesday. Three are rated as "Critical" and the other three are marked "Important."
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5.11.2009 Cost of Vista Business License Offset by Savings, Says Microsoft
For a great many large businesses, "the move to the next Windows" has been an ongoing, daily affair for at least well over a decade. And up until recently, the reasons why this migration tends to proceed so slowly have been, to Microsoft, a complete mystery.
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15.6.2007 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 Keep Windows XP Until 2009, Analysts Tell Microsoft
Microsoft may have pushed a too-aggressive XP transition schedule because of how long it took to release Vista, an analyst suggests.
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9.2.2008 Dell to Sell Windows XP Professional with PCs Through 2009
In a letter to some of Dells customers, they said that "XP Professional is available for OEM installation on your Dell PC purchases through at least 2009 and likely longer."
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9.6.2008 Windows XP Mainstream Support Ends April 14, 2009
On April 14, 2009, Microsoft plans to cut off mainstream support for Windows XP and Office 2003. As a consequence, both products will move in the Extended support phase, which will last for the next five years.
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14.4.2009 Patch Vista and XP to Ignore SP1 and SP3
With Microsoft having released Windows Vista Service Pack 1 Released Candidate via Connect, MSDN and TechNet, and a public build on the horizon any day now, you have to stare the truth in the face and start preparing for the deployment of the service pack.
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10.12.2007 Just 1 Patch Cooking for Vista SP1 and XP SP3
December 2008 was a sufficiently tough month for Microsoft, when it came down to plugging security holes in its products, but January 2009 will more than make up for it.
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11.1.2009 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 June 2009 Patches ISO Image Available
This month’s release addresses 31 total vulnerabilities with 15 rated as “1” on our Exploitability Index, meaning there is a high likelihood that reliable exploit code may be developed in the next 30 days,” stated Jerry Bryant, Sr. security program manager lead.
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12.6.2009 Patch Tuesday - Fixes for Windows XP/Vista & Server
Windows XP users are urged to fire up Windows Update and install these if you don't already allow for "Automatic Updates".
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11.6.2008 Critical Security Patch for Windows XP Service Pack 3 Final
Windows XP SP3 was barely out the door, when Microsoft rushed to issue the first critical patch for the service pack. Concomitantly with the general
availability of the last service pack for XP, Microsoft dropped the first critical security update designed to patch Internet Explorer 7 running on XP SP3 RTM Build 5512.
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8.5.2008 Microsofts XP SP3 Patch Fixes Anti-Virus Glitch
Microsoft issued a hotfix for Windows XP Service Pack 3 last week that it says "could resolve" a Windows registry corruption problem associated with third-party security software.
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2.7.2008 Vista SP2 and XP SP3 Patch Security Release ISO Image Available
A DVD5 ISO image file containing all the security bulletins made available on November 10th, 2009 for all supported Windows platforms, is now up for grabs via the Microsoft Download Center.
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13.11.2009 MS: Another Patch for cursor patch
Stop 0x0000007F error when you try to print from computers that are running Windows XP or Windows 2000 and that have GDI security update 925902 installed
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20.4.2007 Silverlight 3 in 2009
Having made available for download version 2 of its Adobe Flash killer, Microsoft is already moving onward to the next iteration.
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18.11.2008 Windows 7 - the End of 2009
As much as Microsoft is trying to make the availability date for the next iteration of the Windows client ambiguous, officially pointing to a development process scoped for 2010, Windows 7 is actually dropping at the end of 2009, were we to believe Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
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28.5.2008 Windows 7 Available on September 1, 2009
As Microsoft is making its way to the release to manufacturing milestone of Windows 7, the company confirmed that the gold build of the operating system would be made available to customers months ahead of October 22, 2009, the official launch deadline.
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14.7.2009 Microsoft: Vista follow-up likely in 2009
With Vista just out the door, Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up client operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
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10.2.2007 Internet Explorer 8? 2008? 2009?
Internet Explorer 8 followed by a question mark and an interrogatory tone is about all that can be said about the successor of Internet Explorer 7 at this point in time.
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1.10.2007 Norton 2009 tackles whitelisting
Symantec has adopted whitelising techniques in an effort to dramatically improve the performance of its upcoming Norton 2009 security suite, according to the company's vice president of consumer engineering, Rowan Trollope.
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12.9.2008 FIFA 2009 Demo Released
Electronic Arts is getting ready to launch the most anticipated soccer related game of the year, FIFA 2009, and they are preparing gamers for the shock by releasing a demo.
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14.9.2008 Windows Live Messenger 2009
Due to a request from Microsoft, this download has been removed temporarily. However, Windows Live Messenger 9 will be available for download here as soon as it is oficially published. Check back often to ensure you don't miss it!
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19.11.2008 Windows 7 RTM in October 2009
Windows 7 will be released to manufacturing in 2009, more precisely in the third quarter of this year, with information from a leaked product roadmap pointing to the first half of October 2009.
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25.2.2009 Messenger Plus! Live 2009 contest
Patchou has announced his 2009 Messenger Plus! Live contest with no less than 1,000 prize packages up for grabs.
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12.7.2009 September 2009 Security Patches
This month MS released five critical bulletins to address vulnerabilities in Windows and protect customers from two types of threats.
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9.9.2009 Businesses delay Vista plans until 2009
Businesses remain unconvinced about the benefits of moving to Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system and most are delaying any plans to upgrade until 2009 at the earliest.
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29.11.2007 Ballmer: Office 14 will not be released in 2009
During his annual “Strategic Update” briefing with Wall Street analysts on February 24, CEO Steve Ballmer said Office 14 won’t be shipping in 2009.
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24.2.2009Western 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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06.12.2006Microsoft & Daylight Savings Time in North America
Because this year, Daylight Savings Time starts three weeks earlier than normal, on March 11th, 2007, and it is ending one week later than usual, on
November 4th, all software on your computer needs appropriate updates in order to have the correct time. Windows users with Automatic Updates
configured for Windows Update already have the necessary update to ensure the date and time change is made correctly. There are, however, various
other Microsoft programs that need to be updated as well. If you have noticed that one of your programs is not up to date, follow the links below to
download the appropriate update.
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04.11.2007MS: $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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28.02.2007Patch to a patch of a Microsoft patch needs patching
In the latest incident of a now-chronic problem that has been bugging Microsoft all year, a recent security patch now causes IE6 to crash in Windows
XP...again...
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19.12.2007Daylight 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.
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22.04.2008Microsoft 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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14.09.2007Patch Tuesday: Five critical for August 2009
Microsoft has issued an advanced security bulletin for August 2009 with five of the nine bulletins marked as "critical" and four are labelled as
"important". These five critical patches are to patch remote code execution and the other four fix elevation of privileges and Denial of Service
(DoS), where a hacker (or hackers) could allow Internet worms inside your computer without the use of user interaction. The nine patches being
released on Tuesday will fix flaws in a number of Microsoft products.
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08.08.2009Windows XP gets another stay of execution
Microsoft has extended the final OEM and reseller delivery date for the Windows XP from January 31, 2009 to May 30, 2009. The cut off date for PC
makers to obtain licenses for the software was January 31, 2009. Still, vendors have to place their orders before the official cutoff date of January
31, but they dont have to take delivery until May. Microsoft granted the reprieve largely because of customer's preference for XP. Microsoft also
recently extended the Vista "downgrade" deadline for OEMs to July 31 and netbooks and low-cost laptops will be able to run XP until at least June
2010, so chances are you'll be able to get XP until Windows 7 ships.
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23.12.2008Critical remote IE exploit patch due Tuesday
Microsoft is planning to release two out-of-band security patches on July 28, 2009. Officials warned in an advanced security bulletin that the
Internet Explorer vulnerability is critical for Windows XP (IE 6/7/8) and Windows Vista (IE 7/8). It's not yet clear whether Windows 7 is
affected. The issue is marked as critical and as a Remote Code Execution. Microsoft also plans to plug a moderate hole in Visual Studio. Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET 2003, 2005 and 2008 are all affected and it's thought the Visual Studio patch will solve an issue that can affect certain types
of applications.
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25.07.2009Virtual server sprawl kills cost savings, experts warn
Virtual server sprawl can eliminate the cost savings so many IT shops covet when they embrace server virtualization, warns a Boeing IT professional
who is leading a virtualization initiative at the company.
"We're under the gun to try to find any kind of cost savings we
can," says Jett Thompson, a Boeing computing infrastructure architect based in Washington state. "Virtualization has been one of the hot ones
because theres readily identified savings there."
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05.12.2008Microsoft Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool v2.0 Available
The Exchange Calendar Update Tool enables administrators to update multiple user mailboxes and adjust calendars and meetings for daylight savings
times.
Before you run the Exchange Calendar Update tool, refer to Microsoft Knowledge Base article
941018, "How to address daylight saving time by using the Exchange Calendar
Update Tool," for complete information about potential effects on your IT environment and user base.
After you install the DST
updates for Microsoft Windows, all old appointments that occur during the DST change periods will be incorrectly displayed as occurring one hour
later. This is true for both recurring and single-instance appointments. These appointments must be updated so that they will be displayed correctly
in Outlook, in Outlook Web Access, and in CDO-based applications. Outlook provides a tool that is named the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft
Office Outlook . This tool enables users to update their own calendars.
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04.09.2007Australia 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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06.02.2008New Linux patch could circumvent Microsoft's FAT patents
A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft's patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which
has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to
Microsoft.
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02.07.2009Motorola to cut 4,000 more jobs in 2009
Mobile handset maker Motorola Inc. says it will cut 4,000 more jobs in 2009, in addition to 3,000 it announced in December.
The
company says the move will save about $700 million a year starting in 2009, totaling $1.5 billion in annual savings when combined with the previous
cut.
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15.01.2009Software Tweak Could Produce Gas Savings
Dutch scientist John Kessels
at the University of Eindhoven
says he has written code that
makes cars more efficient by
controlling a vehicle's
battery charging system.
Employing software to
dynamically switch a dynamo,
used to charge batteries in
conventional car designs, on
and off can have a significant
impact on mileage. The
professor claims the software
patch and an inexpensive cable
could be added to any car with
an onboard computer and
produce fuel savings in the
range of 2.6%. The software
patch for automotive dynamo
control still requires further
testing to evaluate its effect
on car batteries.
Kessels has been working
with automaker Ford to
increase engine efficiency
using the technique, which is
already being used
commercially in many hybrid
vehicles. Further gas savings
and resulting reduced carbon
dioxide emissions could be
achieved by actually switching
a car's engine on and off, as
long as more powerful starter
motors were used and other
changes to the car's
powertrain were made. Kessels
findings will be published in
the article "Energy
Management for the Electric
Powernet in Vehicles with a
Conventional Drivetrain,"
which is scheduled to appear
in IEEE Transactions on
Control Systems Technology -
Special Issue on Control
Applications in Automotive
Engineering, 2007.
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13.02.2007FAQ: 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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29.10.2007Critical Windows patch may
wreak PC havoc
A Microsoft patch
meant to fix critical security
flaws in Windows 2000, Windows
XP and Windows Server 2003 is
causing trouble for some
users, the company said
Friday.
Th
e patch was released Tuesday
to fix four Windows flaws,
including one that experts
predict will be exploited by a
worm in the coming days. The
flaw, tagged "critical" by
Microsoft, lies in a Windows
component for transaction
processing called the
Microsoft Distributed
Transaction Coordinator, or
MSDTC.
Installing
the patch can cause serious
problems, Microsoft said in an
advisory posted to its Web
site Friday. The patch could
lock users out of their PC,
prevent the Windows Firewall
from starting, block certain
applications from running or
installing, and empty the
network connections folder,
among other things, the
software maker said. ..
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16.10.2005Dell to Sell Windows XP Professional with PCs Through 2009
In a letter to some of Dells customers, they said that " XP Professional is available for OEM installation on your Dell PC purchases through at
least 2009 and likely longer." The "official" OEM and retail end date from Microsoft is June 30, 2008, just a few weeks away. There has been
much talk of whether Microsoft would bow to the demand of the consumers to keep XP alive, and with this it is still hard to tell if Dell bought a
years stock of licenses ahead of time, or if this is the precursor to an announcement from Microsoft.
Dell's plan for users is to have
Windows XP Professional installed on their machines, but include the Vista install disk for when they are ready to upgrade. "With XP installed,
we will send media for both Vista and XP with each PC so that when you are ready to migrate to Vista you may at no addition upgrade cost." The
demand seems high, so let's hope others follow suit to allow companies the time and resources to fully upgrade.
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10.06.2008DST Update for Windows XP (KB942763)
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.
System Requirements
- Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP Service Pack 2; Windows XP Service Pack 3
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22.04.2008Patch Tuesday for September 2009
Microsoft's Security Bulletin for September contains five critical bulletins for release on Tuesday to block Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities
in Windows operating systems. The five patches are scheduled for release on September 8, 2009. All five bulletins have been rated as "Critical",
Microsoft's highest rating for vulnerabilities. These critical updates are to prevent exploitation of Windows operating system and prevent holes
used by Internet worms to attack users without user interaction. These updates only affect Microsoft Windows operating systems and not any other
software.
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