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Blog Post:
Advisory: Windows Cumulative Update for Samoa, as they skip Friday and change their time zone
M3 Sweatt
As I noted in a prior post, Samoa will move their time zone this week, essentially traveling to the future ... When is December 30th not December 30th? When it's 2011 in Samoa. [rimshot] As you may have read, Samoa has decided to move ahead in time and join neighbors and trading partners...
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28 Dec 2011
Blog Post:
It's Time To Fall Back An Hour in the US and Canada: Daylight Saving Time Ends This Sunday
M3 Sweatt
Yes, it's that time again if you'll pardon the pun, to fall back in much of the Northern Hemisphere. Daylight saving time ends at 2:00AM local time on Sunday, November 6, 2011, in much of the U.S and Canada, except in parts of the countries (including Hawaii and Arizona). You can read more than you...
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4 Nov 2011
Blog Post:
The time has come to move on… to Windows 7 (especially if you're still on Windows XP)
M3 Sweatt
It's time to make a move away from Windows… Windows XP that is. As Rich Reynolds noted in his post on the Windows team blog commemorating Windows XP this week… "We’ve been talking a lot about the anniversary of Windows XP and how much technology and business have changed...
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27 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Announcement: Late breaking 2011 time zone changes for Armenia and Ukraine (again)
M3 Sweatt
I originally posted that we confirmed that Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine won't fall back but also stay permanently on summer time on October 30, similar to the move in Russia. Well, it appears that that these decisions were recently reversed. Please note we have received reports that Armenia and...
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22 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Advisory: Fiji plans to shift from daylight saving to standard time earlier in 2012
M3 Sweatt
As you may have read, Fiji has decided to shift their move back to standard time earlier than originally planned in 2012. This from the Government of Fiji … "The end of daylight saving scheduled initially for the 26th of February 2012 has been brought forward to the 22nd of January 2012. "The...
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20 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Posted: Information on preparations for daylight saving time changes and Microsoft Office 365
M3 Sweatt
My friends over in the Office 365 team have provided some guidance on their community site about preparing for daylight saving time changes around the world … If the country or region where your organization or some of your users reside has changed their policy of recognizing daylight saving time, or...
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13 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Announcement: Late 2011 time zone changes for Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine
M3 Sweatt
Important update October 21, 2011: Please note we have received reports that Armenia and Ukraine have canceled their proposed changes. ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/archive/2011/10/19/notice-ukraine-and-armenia-revert-2011-dst-cancellation.aspx ). According to reports in Rada and Kyivpost that...
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5 Oct 2011
Blog Post:
Armenia, Belarus, Ukraine to abolish Daylight Saving Time, Microsoft guidance for Windows
M3 Sweatt
[Updated 21 October, 2011] Please note we have received reports that Armenia and Ukraine have canceled their proposed changes. ( http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/archive/2011/10/19/notice-ukraine-and-armenia-revert-2011-dst-cancellation.aspx ). According to reports in Rada and Kyivpost , Ukraine will...
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30 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Changes to daylight saving time in Russia for 2011: third party resources & guidance
M3 Sweatt
A question from the virtual mailbag today… "I know that you have released guidance on Microsoft products and services for the end to Summer Time in Russia. But what about other products in our stack?" Good question. Here are the responses I'm aware of today. Blackberry : To find the latest...
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29 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
DON’T Turn Back the Clock: Microsoft Provides Resources for Change in Daylight Saving Time in Russia
M3 Sweatt
Early this morning, I posted on the Microsoft Corporate blog about our efforts to inform our customers and partners on our activities related to the end of daylight saving time in the Russian Federation, a change noted earlier this year. For our customers and partners worldwide, this means there are...
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29 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Announcement: Microsoft webcasts on DST changes in Russia: Oct 3rd & 6th
M3 Sweatt
We're doing another series of webcasts next week to help customers and organizations preparing for daylight saving time, particularly the new changes in Russia this year. This is part of our "step-by-step" program on making the DST transition. Geared toward IT Professionals, we'll walk through a general...
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28 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Get Outlook 2010 SP1 for displaying two separate time zones in the Calendar
M3 Sweatt
Want another reason to install Outlook 2010 SP1 ? In Outlook, you can display two separate time zones in the Calendar. This allows you to see your local time zone and the time zone of a city that you often travel to. When you travel to that other time zone, you can use the Swap Time Zones option to change...
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15 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Announcement: Microsoft webcast on daylight saving time changes in Russia
M3 Sweatt
[Update 9/19/2010: The materials from our webcast, along with a recording of the webcast itself, are now available here .] Here's an interesting webcast we have coming up this week… We're also offering a series of new webcasts to help customers and organizations preparing for daylight saving...
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12 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
Advisory: Samoa moving their time zone, traveling to the future
M3 Sweatt
When is December 30th not December 30th? When it's 2011 in Samoa. As you may have read, Samoa has decided to move ahead in time and join neighbors and trading partners on the western side of the International Date line (like Australia and New Zealand). In doing so, Samoa will move from December...
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9 Sep 2011
Blog Post:
New blog from the Windows team: Building Windows 8
M3 Sweatt
Want to see posts from the Windows 8 team ? Follow their new blog, Building Windows 8, aka "B8", starting today.. http://t.co/FlEh2yk This from Steven… "For the Windows team, this blog is an important part of developing Windows 8, as was our blog for Windows 7. Blogging allows us to have...
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15 Aug 2011
Blog Post:
Microsoft Windows August 2011 Updates to Daylight Saving Time and Time Zones, including Russia
M3 Sweatt
Check out Microsoft KB article 2570791 for the August 2011 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems, just posted this week. (This update supersedes and replaces update 2443685, which was released in December 2010. This update also includes additional time zone changes released as hotfixes...
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11 Aug 2011
Blog Post:
Microsoft Previewing ‘Windows 8’
M3 Sweatt
Noting Julie's article today , we demonstrated the next generation of Windows at the D9 Conference today, internally code-named “Windows 8.” "Windows 8 is a reimagining of Windows, from the chip to the interface. A Windows 8-based PC is really a new kind of device, one that scales from touch-only...
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1 Jun 2011
Blog Post:
Russia will abolish Daylight Saving Time, Microsoft to provide updates and guidance
M3 Sweatt
[Note: please see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mthree/archive/2011/08/11/dst-081111.aspx for the released Windows Update for August 2011...] Remember when I wondered out loud about Russia abolishing daylight saving time? Well, I do. We've been following this quite closely at Microsoft, and have seen...
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22 Apr 2011
Blog Post:
It's Time To Spring Forward An Hour in the US and Canada: Daylight Saving Time Arrives Sunday
M3 Sweatt
I was reminded today (thanks, Joel and Beth... how could I have forgotten!) that today is the third anniversary of the move to the new schedule for daylight saving time. That means daylight saving time (aka DST) is here once again, and that you'll change your clocks this Sunday, March 13, 2011, as we...
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11 Mar 2011
Blog Post:
Update available for Microsoft Office OneNote for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iOS
M3 Sweatt
Remember the new release of Microsoft Office OneNote for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iOS ? Benoit Barabe reminded me of the 1.0.1 update released which addresses the error 400 some users experienced. Still US only for now, but everyone who has 1.0 should get the free upgrade to 1.0.1. Tags: Apple...
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27 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Microsoft quarterly earnings for FY11 Q2: lots of records for Kinect, Xbox 360, Windows 7 and more
M3 Sweatt
Just posted our Earnings Release for FY11 Q2… Redmond, Wash. – Jan. 27, 2011 – Microsoft Corp. today announced record second-quarter revenue of $19.95 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, 2010. Operating income, net income and diluted earnings per share for the quarter were $8.17 billion, $6.63 billion...
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27 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Now available: Microsoft Office OneNote for Apple's iPhone, iPad and iOS
M3 Sweatt
**Free for a limited time** I love Microsoft Office OneNote on my Windows Phone 7 . I f I still used my iPhone 3GS, I could now get OneNote there, too: the team has released Microsoft OneNote for the iPhone. Follow the team blog (including outside the US availability) here. You can get Microsoft...
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18 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Announcement: Microsoft Security Advisory 2490606: Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution
M3 Sweatt
This just published on TechNet's Microsoft Security Advisories and notred on the MSRC Blog: details on Microsoft Security Advisory 2490606 , Vulnerability in Graphics Rendering Engine Could Allow Remote Code Execution... Microsoft is investigating new public reports of a vulnerability in the Windows...
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4 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Announcement: security bulletin MS10-087 update for Microsoft Office
M3 Sweatt
The Microsoft Malware Protection Center has a post noting security bulletin MS10-087 , which addresses a number of critical vulnerabilities in how Microsoft Office parses various office file formats. This was addressed in November, in the MS10-087 update . One of them is CVE-2010-3333 , "RTF Stack...
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4 Jan 2011
Blog Post:
Announcement: Microsoft Windows December 2010 Updates to Daylight Saving Time and Time Zones
M3 Sweatt
Check out Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 2443685 , "December 2010 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems", which the Windows team just posted. This is the December Daylight Saving Time and Time Zone (DST & TZ) Cumulative Update (CU), and the current KB/blog text focuses on the...
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16 Dec 2010
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