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 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 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 Fix Windows 7 Update Stopped Working with Fix WU
Often due to missing dlls or other files windows functionality like firewall, automatic updates etc stops working.
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10.11.2009 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 SafeDisc Windows XP Fix for Microsoft Games
When running a restricted user account with fast user switching under Windows XP, some games will not start correctly. The game requests that the original disk be placed in the drive, even if it is already present. To remedy this issue, download and run this fix.
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2.3.2006 Top 10 Microsoft Windows XP Tips of All Time
Despite all the hoopla about the introduction of Windows Vista, the truth of the matter is that the new OS isn't due for at least another seven to nine months.
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14.8.2006 New Security Solutions Live in Time for Vista SP1 and XP SP3 Vulnerabilities
October 14 was synonymous not only with the availability of a new release out of the Microsoft monthly patch cycle but also with the introductions of a couple of new security from the Redmond company: the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP) and Exploitability Index.
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15.10.2008 Tell Hasta la Vista to XP - Time to Upgrade to Vista SP1
Like it or not, this is the right time not only to upgrade to Windows Vista Service Pack 1 but also to tell hasta la vista to Windows XP.
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30.6.2008 It's Time to Face the Ugly Truth, SP3 or No SP3, the Clock Is Ticking for Windows XP
As 2008 has kicked in, it's now time to face the ugly truth. The clock is ticking for Windows XP. And while Microsoft may view this as a natural stage in the evolution of a product introduced all the way in 2001, a healthy proportion of end-users and businesses will fail to see eye to eye with the company on this one.
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5.1.2008 Fix for a Fix that fixes Windows Update fixes
Consider the following scenario. You apply the hotfix package that is described in Microsoft Knowledge Base article 916089.
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21.2.2007 Microsoft: We can Fix that for you
Microsoft Windows operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Vista provide troubleshooting options for errors that occur in your PC and sometimes provide a link which can have a solution for that error.
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3.1.2009 The Desktop -- Time To Say Goodbye?
July 19, 2007 (Computerworld) When Paul Scheib at Boston's Children's Hospital goes shopping for PCs, his choice is more often a desktop than a notebook. Thanks to bdh734 for this article.
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21.7.2007 Windows: Time to Go on a Diet
Obesity seems to be a pretty universal theme in our culture today. We’re eating too many fatty and sugar-laced foods and our waistlines – and our health – are suffering as a collective result.
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3.3.2008 Mojave Goes Prime Time
OMG. I saw a "Mojave Experiment" TV commercial on Scifi HD last night.
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15.9.2008 How to Fix Microsoft in Five (Not So) Easy Steps
It's summer and the living is supposed to be easy. Easy, that is, unless you're Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Ballmer just can't seem to appease Microsoft shareholders, customers and watchdogs, and no wonder. The company has lurched from one PR mess to the next.
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8.7.2006 How to fix Vista's network bottlenecks
As much as I enjoy using Vista, I’ve definitely noticed that in some networking activities, it definitely seems to struggle. Particularly compared with Windows XP.
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27.9.2007 Will Windows Mobile 7 fix updating?
According to a recent job posting, Microsoft might be changing how updates work on Windows Mobile with the release of version 7 next year.
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16.3.2009 Vista Needs More Time: The Entry I Didn't Want To Write
I've been defending Microsoft's ship schedule for Windows Vista (actual build 5483) for quite some time. Up to this point, I've been confident that Vista would be at the quality level it needs to be by RC1 to make the launch fantastic.
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1.8.2006 Microsoft Likely to Ship Vista On Time?
Microsoft Corp. will most likely ship its upcoming Windows Vista operating system on time and meet its deadline for both corporate and retail consumers, a Wall Street analyst said on Wednesday.
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5.10.2006 Just in time for the holidays another Microsoft 0-Day
Microsoft has received and acknowledged that a new 0-Day exploit is public, and the proof-of-concept code announced for it is valid today on their Security Blog.
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26.12.2006 Next Vista 2099 Time crack
Thanks to selseli who report this crack in
our forum. Thanks to who prepared this crack, too.
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14.1.2007 Three reasons why CES is a waste of time
For those of you who have made it to CES at least once in your life, you probably know all about the amount walking and waiting in line and shoving that goes in to any good trip to Las Vegas for the Consumer Electronics Show.
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9.1.2008 It is Vista SP1 RTM Time Again
Over two months since it was released to manufacturing, and just a week short of the first month since general availability, Microsoft is now showing strong movement on the Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RTM front.
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8.4.2008 Dear Microsoft: Please get UAC right this time
UAC could certainly have been handled better. It does something the security industry has been well aware of for a long time — it creates the “cry wolf” problem of popup fatigue (people turn off or ignore the popups after awhile).
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30.5.2008 Windows 7 Makes It on Microsoft.com for the First Time
This is certainly a premiere... Windows 7 has managed to make it on a Microsoft.com home page for the first time.
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17.7.2008 Microsoft-Yahoo deal: The time is now
The patience over Microsoft and Yahoo’s never-ending deal dance is wearing thin among the chattering class–bloggers, analysts and folks sick of following this dysfunctional courtship–and the consensus is right.
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11.11.2008 Microsoft must know the right time to release Windows 7
Back in 2006, Microsoft released its last installment of Windows till date, Windows Vista to the market (Although it was released on January 2007 for broader audience and retail market).
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12.3.2009 Xbox 360 crash fix found
A gamer fed up with his new Xbox 360 crashing every 20 minutes has fixed the problem by raising the power supply off the ground with some string.
Dan, from Duluth, or 'goldeneyemaster' as he is known, told the game spot forum here that he thinks the main reason that the xBox 360 freezes is because the power supply overheats. The solution is to lift the power supply off the floor and allow the air to circulate better around it.
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26.11.2005 Microsoft tests fix for IE bug as exploits appear
A recently identified Internet Explorer security hole is now being exploited and Microsoft hopes to include a fix for it in its April 11 patch or maybe even earlier, according to a posting on a Microsoft blog. So far, attacks are limited in scope, Stephen Toulouse, head of Microsoft's Security Response Center, wrote on the center's blog on Saturday.
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28.9.2006Western 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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28.02.2007Microsoft 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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14.09.2007Daylight 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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22.04.2008FAQ: 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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29.10.2007Microsoft: We can Fix that for you
Microsoft Windows operating systems like Windows XP and Windows Vista provide troubleshooting options for errors that occur in your PC and sometimes
provide a link which can have a solution for that error. But finding a proper fix has always been a difficult task for many. Sometimes we may think
why can't Microsoft fix this for me? The Fix-it teams' purpose is to help users fix their problems in a click of a button. The Microsoft KB
articles and the Windows Error Reporting are now fix-it enabled with a list of steps that can be followed to resolve the issue.
Read full story.....
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03.01.2009Time 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
Microsoft 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.
winbeta.org - 04.09.2007
Australia 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.
winbeta.org - 06.02.2008
DST 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
neowin.net - 22.04.2008
Microsoft: Daylight Saving Fix for $4000 in Extended Support
Microsoft have decided to
reduce the pricing of a patch
to fix the new March 11 date
for Daylight Saving Time (DST)
from a whopping $40,000 to
a mere $4000 for products
that have left mainstream
support and have entered the
"Extended" support phase, according to
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo
Foley.
Products
affected are Windows 2000,
Exchange Server 2000 and
Outlook 2000, among
others. Microsoft explains
in a PowerPoint document
distributed to
analysts"For
products that have entered
into the Extended Support
phase, Microsoft will provide
customers with the opportunity
to purchase the DST 2007
hotfix at a reduced price of
Four Thousand Dollars (US
$4,000). Customers will
only be charged a single fee
of $4,000 to obtain all
hotfixes, for products in
Extended Support phase, needed
to update their systems for
DST 2007.
"For
customers who have previously
purchased DST 2007 hotfixes
for products in Extended
Support, Microsoft will
reimburse the difference to
them under the new pricing
category."
A
Microsoft spokesman was quoted
saying the $4,000 price
represents a "substantial
discount" and that it was
merely to "cover costs".
neowin.net - 01.03.2007
Microsoft Advises Double Checking Vista/XP for DST Change
Microsoft has set up a page to assist users with checking their Vista and XP system to make
sure they are in compliance with all the local Daylight Saving Time (DST) rules. In some cases, time zone settings may be incorrect, according to
Microsoft. There are no known issues with Mac OS X.
The Microsoft advisory says: "Observance of DST, and 'Summer Time' in much
of Europe, is often different around the world; many areas, countries and territories shift their clocks at different times throughout the year.
During these changes, clocks are usually shifted by one hour. Some locations follow a set of standard, uniform rules for the start and end dates of
DST, but some locations determine the dates on a much more dynamic basis.
winbeta.org - 07.03.2008
XP SP3: TechNet and MSDN subscribers to get beta in two weeks
Microsoft provided an update on the timing for Windows XP Service Pack (SP) 3 on August 29.
Company officials said on Wednesday
that the Windows team plans to deliver a near-public beta of XP SP3 (its going to all TechNet and Microsoft Developer Network subscribers) by
mid-September.
The final version of XP SP3 is slated to hit some time in the first half of calendar 2008, officials said. (Thats
the same date the Softies have been promising officially for a while now. Microsoft wont be any more specific on XP SP3 timing.)
Company officials did not release a feature set for XP SP3 on August 29. The only new piece of information available was the public-beta due
date.
Microsoft made available to a set of private testers a preview of XP SP3 earlier in August. I saw an alleged fix list at
that time: It consisted of nearly 1,000 items.
The last time Microsoft provided a cumulative update to Windows XP was in 2004,
when it released XP SP2.
winbeta.org - 29.08.2007
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 śspring
forward,ť and the effects these changes have on customers around the world...
microsoft.com/presspass - 10.09.2007
Windows Vista Power Savings help you save costs
A new report has recently been published demonstrating the hard savings available from Windows Vista's Power Saving functionality. If your company
has hard C02 reduction targets, or you would like to tell your management that you can save them $11 per desktop in direct costs then go ahead and
read this report.
The headlines are:
- Windows Vista can reduce electricity costs. Businesses can save up to
$11 per system, per year by switching to Windows Vista, due to the default power management settings. For a company with 5000 users, this means up
to $47,000 of bottom line dollars can be saved annually.
- The Vista Sleep state is more reliable than XP. Computers resume from Sleep in
two seconds, which is about the same time it takes a screen to resume from Idle mode in Windows XP.
- Power consumption reduction translates
into direct CO2 savings. Carbon dioxide emissions are reduced by up to 67 kg of carbon dioxide per desktop PC, per year. For a company with 5000
users, this is 288 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions reduced.
neowin.net - 17.04.2008
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
Virtual 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."
winbeta.org - 05.12.2008
Not Y2K, but Glitches Loom with '07 Daylight-Saving time
Sounding a little like the Y2K
concerns at the turn of this
century, the U.S. Congress's
expansion of daylight-saving
time, which moves the clock
change from early April to
March 11, may cause some VARs
to lose a little sleep. The
change will require patches
for many software products,
some which will require manual
installations. But customers
shouldn't expect VARs to be
pushing such patches very
hard.
"People will
wait and see what will really
happen because of Y2K," said
Jim Locke, president of
JWLocke and Associates, a VAR
based in Pasadena, Calif.
"Everybody shouted that the
world was going to come to an
end with Y2K, and of course it
didn't." But in spite of the
negative connotations that may
automatically go along with
the daylight-saving time
issue, Locke believes that it
will indeed be an issue, and
one that will most likely be
handled through remediation
rather than proactive efforts.
neowin.net - 11.01.2007
Apple Says Welcome to February 50, 2007
Mac users have been welcomed
to their own exclusive place
in time, February 50th.
Reports have been popping up
around the net that Mac users
are seeing the date on their
systems listed as February 50,
2007. Some are speculating
that it could a bug caused by
the recent Daylight Savings
Time update released by Apple
last week, but no confirmation
has been made. We will keep
you updated as more
information becomes
available.
neowin.net - 20.02.2007
