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Your questions: how do I connect an Xbox 360 to my Windows PC?
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A question from an Xbox 360 owner with a Media Center PC: "how do I connect an Xbox 360 to my Windows PC?" For the latest info, see this article on xbox.com on connecting your PC up to an Xbox 360 with Windows Media Connect. If you are connecting an...
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Now available: 180 day Trial Version SharePoint Server 2007 for Search
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Courtesy of the Microsoft Download Notifications today ( Go to the Microsoft.com Profile Center to sign up) Now available on the Download Centre: the x86 bit trial version (180 days) of SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Standard Edition (at a whopping...
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Remember: April 1st is not this year's daylight saving time 'spring forward' date
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If you did not apply the updates to your various PCs and devices as noted on our http://www.microsoft.com/dst2007 daylight saving time information site, but manually adjusted the time, please note that older devices may 'spring forward' on the first Sunday...
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Your questions: Who do you work with in COSD at Microsoft?
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A question received this afternoon from a friend in SiValley (thanks, Kim P.) "So, who do you work with these days at Microsoft in Windows COSD?" BTW, COSD = the Windows Core Operating System Division, the group that develops the core bits of...
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BBC reports: the new Xbox 360 Elite, coming in April '07
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Back from the eye doctor, and 'though I thought my vision was off... Black is the new black: this just in from the BBC on th enew Xbox 360 Elite... " Xbox revamp aims at digital home ." "The long-awaited revamp of the Xbox 360, designed to store...
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Your questions: which software applications work with Windows Vista?
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A question from a customer last night: "Is there a list of software applications that work with Windows Vista?" Check out Microsoft Knowledge Base article 933305 , "Applications that have earned the "Certified for Windows Vista" logo or the ...
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PC World's "35 Things Every PC User Should Know" and other Windows Tips
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Christopher Null of PC World shares 35 Things Every PC User Should Know in his column, now up on MSN Tech and Gadgets , as well as Preston Gralla's Windows Tips for Everyone . Want to speed up your broadband connection? Diagnose mysterious crashes...
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Thoughts on Microsoft Search and the big News/NBC Web Video deals
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A few random thoughts. BusinessWeek has an interesting article this week on "Where Is Microsoft Search?" The author observes that Microsoft has stumbled in an effort to provide a better comprehensive mousetrap on the Web, and prevent others from undermining...
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Link: 300 the movie vs. the Spartans of History
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Last night was date night, where we (my wife, me) find a sitter and head out for dinner and a movie. Not that it always works out that way. But last night after dinner, it was a toss-up between 300 and Premonition, and the Sandra Bullock drama won out...
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Your questions: What are the numbers on your blog? How about ninemillion.org?
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After getting back to my regular day job this week (in addition to daylight saving time and time zone work), I found a couple of emails asking... "What are those numbers at the end of your blog tags?" Tags: Microsoft , Daylight Saving Time ,...
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DST Support Central in Redmond, Day 5 - closing down
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Live here from the DST Support Central in Redmond ... it's now 5:30 PM in our Redmond facility and all's well, and we're closing down our centre here ('tho support remains live through our regular channels). We've got about 80 people right now on our...
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Breakfast in Redmond for DST Support Central staff, Day 4
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Daylight saving time breakfast today courtesy of the team on site today (thanks, Jason). Pretty full featured omelets bar this morning, served with piping coffee. Tags: Microsoft , Daylight Saving Time , Daylight Savings Time , DST . 786,613;...
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It's 2:00... no, make that 3:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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All of my devices in the DST are now reading 3:00 AM given that we just switched over to daylight saving time here in the Pacific Time Zone (Redmond, to be specific).
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DST Support Central in Redmond, Day 3
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Live here from the DST Support Central in Redmond ... it's now 2:00 AM in our Charlotte facility and all's well. We've got about 60 people right now on our live DST chat room and we had very few people on our Live Meeting. Interesting article today...
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DST Support Central in Redmond, Day 2
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I just returned from Day 2 in DST Support Central (as Ina Fried reported on CNET News ) on the main campus in Redmond, tied 24 hrs a day to our support centres in Charlotte, Las Colinas and Bangalore. "Aiming to shorten that wait, Microsoft has...
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Your questions: Getting Microsoft OS daylight saving time updates via WSUS
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I have seen a couple of comments on getting the OS updates for DST from WSUS, so here are few Q&A on WSUS and Microsoft OS daylight saving time updates: Q: Can the OS DST update be deployed via WSUS/SUS? A. Yes. The Windows updates were...
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Microsoft Windows Mobile Newsletter on DST 2007: Update your WM5 device now
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I received my latest newsletter from Microsoft (yes, I subscribe), the same day that I received a note from my carrier that they had an update for my Windows Mobile 5 Pocket PC Phone... Update your Windows Mobile powered device now You can't...
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Help desk guidelines on Daylight Saving Time for Microsoft Office Outlook Calendars
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The Exchange team has posted a helpdesk oriented document (below) that provides recommendations and prescriptive guidance for updating Outlook calendars to comply with the Daylight Saving Time (DST) 2007 rule changes. The goal is to provide an Outlook...
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CNET on IT Pros and consumer guidance for handling daylight saving time changes
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It's so hard to get all of the details in a small sound bite. ;) I had the pleasure last week to speak with CNET’s Erica Ogg (disclaimer: I read her blog on CNET's Crave ) as she was writing a story on the impacts of Daylight Saving Time. The article...
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Your questions: Have the DST 2007 updates for Microsoft CRM been released?
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"have the DST 2007 updates for Microsoft CRM been released?" A: Yes, the Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Time Zone Data Updates (KB 925874) and Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Update Time Zones Wizard (KB 932984) have been released to the Microsoft Download...
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FYI: Update to Windows Mobile Devices Daylight saving time 2007 updates
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Latest info on the new updates for Windows Mobile Devices, which replace the previously released updates at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/daylightsaving . If you have been using the previously released updates, you may still continue to use...
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Your questions: How do we get the daylight saving time OS updates via WSUS?
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"How can customers leverage WSUS to obtain the daylight saving time OS updates?" WSUS can only be used to push the http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836 OS updates for Windows 2003 SP1 and Windows XP SP2. It cannot be modified to push other updates...
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Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool with New Hotfix Patch Available for DST
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Microsoft Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool and New Patch Please find attached the documentation for the released Patch for the Microsoft Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool. (The existing tool is available on the Download Center ). Scenarios...
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