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- DST arrives this weekend: Are your Microsoft systems ready?
- Daylight Saving Time DST starts a couple of weeks earlier this year than usual -- on Sunday March 9 for U.S. and Canada. Microsoft users and administrators should know the drill by now: Double-check to make sure your Microsoft-based systems are ready. M3 Sweatt, the Chief of...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Daylight Saving Time, DST, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- Microsoft users: DST D-day is Sunday
- On November 4, it's time to fall back, in terms of Daylight Saving Time DST here in the U.S. If you haven't already done so, you might want to make doubly sure that all your Microsoft (and non-Microsoft) software that revolves around dates/times is updated. Microsoft has...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Daylight Saving Time, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-11-02
- Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST fallout
- November 4 is just around the corner. Now's the time to make sure any Microsoft products that store or use time are updated before Daylight Saving Time DST in the U.S. ends for the year, the Softies say. Hoping to head off the confusion and problems a...
- Tags: Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Daylight Saving Time, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-09-14
- Beware false Daylight Saving Time resets on April 1
- Users who didnt already update their PCs and devices for the earlier-than-usual Daylight Saving Time DST change-over could encounter time glitches on April 1, the "normally scheduled" DST start date. As USA Today notes: "There may be more DST glitches on Sunday night. Its likely that some consumers...
- Tags: Windows Mobile, Windows client, Windows CE, Office, Corporate strategy, App Compatibility
- Blog posts 2007-03-30
- Updates from the Microsoft Daylight Saving patch trenches
- Its 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. On Friday afternoon, Microsofts DST online chat room, which was set to be staffed for 15 hours, had on average...
- Tags: Office, Support, Exchange Server, App Compatibility
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches
- Thousands of Microsoft customers are running into problems understanding and applying the myriad Microsoft Daylight Saving Time DST patches required in order to keep their Windows, Exchange Server and other systems up-to-date when DST takes effect on March 11. Microsofts online DST chat room -- which Microsoft is currently...
- Tags: Windows Mobile, App Compatibility, Exchange Server, Support, Windows server, Windows client
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Microsoft releases Daylight Saving patches for Dynamics CRM 3.0
- Microsoft is continuing to roll out updates needed for a number of its products as a result of the early switch to Daylight Saving Time DST on March 11. The latest product to get the DST treatment is Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0. Microsoft made the DST CRM patch...
- Tags: App Compatibility, Dynamics CRM, Exchange Server
- Blog posts 2007-03-05
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- Seesmic fires a third of staff as recession bites
- Loic LeMeur, CEO of Seesmic has announced the company is reducing its headcount by seven people. That may not sound like a huge number but as LeMeur says in the video announcement: ...the longevity of the company is obviously of significant importance - and thus we must reduce costs...
- Tags: Recession, Video, Seesmic, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Live Services as Microsoft's consumer Web platform
- It's been tricky keeping separate all of the "layers" in the Microsoft cloud strata. One of those layers, Live Services, has been especially amorphous. But now Live Services is a little clearer, thanks to a new Web site detailing an upcoming series of Microsoft events. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Live Platform, Channel Management, Marketing, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Remember IBM at $10.50 per Share? Oracle as a penny stock? Tales of Hope from the Great High Tech Depression of ‘89
- Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak …..October. Paraphrasing Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven seems somehow appropriate to this moment, when it seems that everything we've all worked and dreamed about is going up in smoke. And yet, having seen a version of this movie...
- Tags: Oracle Corp., Recession, Stock, IBM Corp., Tech Stock, Investment, Finance, Joshua Greenbaum
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft expected to release Silverlight 2 next week
- It sounds like Monday October 13 is the day that Microsoft will announce that Silverlight 2 is done. by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp., .Net, Apple Mac OS X, Application Servers, Apple Mac OS, RSS, Middleware, Operating Systems, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Software, Enterprise Software, Internet, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft's 'conceptual touch designs'
- I've written from time to time about Apple and their rumoured tablet devices, applications for tablet PC's, multi-touch and Surface, and all those touchy-feely concepts we've been hearing about, but when do we get to actually see them? Microsoft has recently kicked forward their Software+Services, which for...
- Tags: Tablet PC, Microsoft Corp., Tablets, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- NSA and phone sex: Eavesdroppers listened to intimate conversations
- Military linguists have come forward to say that the intelligence services routinely listened in on Americans overseas calling home and on the communications of non-suspect groups like the Red Cross. And, they say, they listened in and even transcribed couples' phone sex, The New York Times reports. ...
- Tags: Phone, Phone Sex, Telecom & Utilities, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- America's airways ready for NextGen
- It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...
- Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Today I am launching a new series, "Microsoft Big Brains." Over the course of the coming weeks, I'll be profiling Microsoft's Technical Fellows -- the 22 or so individuals who are helping to fill Chairman Bill Gates' shoes at the company, in terms of setting Redmond's future product/strategy agenda. The...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Team Management, Search, Strategy, Management, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Is Google working on the synchronization problem?
- ReadWriteWeb has a post up about the fact that Zoho has added offline access to Zoho Mail using Gears. Zoho continues to do a really good job of innovating when it comes to Ajax-based RIAs. They were very early to the game in creating offline support for Zoho Docs before...
- Tags: Google Inc., Rich Internet Application, Microsoft Corp., ReadWriteWeb, Zoho Mail, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Wall Street: MSFT should buy Yahoo, consider RIM
- A Wall Street investor has suggested that the stars may be aligned just right for Microsoft to make another run at Yahoo, this time for $22 per share. Investment fund Mithras Capital, which owns more than 1.9 million shares, or 0.14 percent, of Yahoo, said Microsoft has a window of...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Financial Accounting, Search, Advertising & Promotion, Handhelds, Finance, Marketing, Hardware, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'
- Microsoft is continuing to slowly trickle out details about its Oslo modeling strategy. The latest info with company has gone public are the names of the three Oslo components it will release in Community Technology Preview CTP form at the Professional Developers Conference PDC, by Mary Jo Foley
- Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Oslo, Microsoft Corp., Modeling, Models, Research & Development, Microsoft Development Tools, Business Operations, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft
- Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...
- Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
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