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In case you missed the announcement, there is a new Microsoft Windows 2009 Daylight Saving Time and Time Zones Hotfix available for Egypt and Western Australia . See my original post here . Once again, as has happened in the past, a couple of countries
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Once again, as has happened in the past, a couple of countries will see new changes to their observation of Daylight Saving Time (DST) , this time in Egypt and Western Australia. (see here for 2008 changes in Egypt ) A new Microsoft Knowledge Base article
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Check out Microsoft KnowledgeBase Article 970653 , "August 2009 cumulative time zone update for Microsoft Windows operating systems", which the Windows team just posted. A nod to the good folks across our company working on our effort
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New in heavy rotation is the latest Laptop Hunter "You find it, you keep it" Microsoft PC television commercial… As Steve noted , this time Matt and Olivia are looking for a laptop under $700 and "Windows Photo Galley gets a high five in
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The Windows Security Essentials beta is now available for download on a new Microsoft site dedicated to Security Essentials. Windows Security Essentials will replace Windows Live OneCare. The new software package will provide a basic level of antimalware
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Thanks to Lourdes, with a note of the Optional Fix-it that is now available for Daylight Saving Time changes in Bangladesh this year. As reported in the Bangladesh Government’s Gazette, Bangladesh has announced the introduction of Daylight Saving Time
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As Lourdes posted here on the Daylight Saving Time and Time Zone blog, a new hotfix is available for Morocco 2009 Daylight Saving Time for the Windows platform. This is an update for the Daylight Saving Time for the "(GMT) Casablanca" time zone
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As I noted the other day in my post Thinking about downloading SP2 for Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008? Please download it from a trusted source , I'd seen several third party sites offering downloads to Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008
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I've seen a couple of blog posts offering downloads to Service Pack 2 (SP2) for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, an upcoming update to the OS. Here's the advice for the day: as I wrote here , only download software from a trusted source – via Microsoft
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There's a new Laptop Hunters "You find it, you keep it" Microsoft PC television commercial out with Lauren (a new law school student) and Sue (her mom) … Video: Laptop Hunters $1700 – Lauren and Sue get a Dell XPS 13 Tags: articles ,
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Groucho Marx famously said… "I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member." Well, there's an exception to every rule. I found such an exception in the Windows Clubhouse. The Clubhouse is a community where you can connect
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Ever see the movie Groundhog Day ? Well, I feel like I'm re-living a past event. We have reports that Pakistan is changing their daylight saving time … but unfortunately all we have are news reports at this time (as noted here on the dailytimes.com.pk
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The new "I'm a PC" commercial, with Giampaolo… As noted on Engadget … "Armed with a $1,500 budget, he walks out of Fry's with an HP HDX 16 that features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB drive
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This came in today via email (thanks, Brin)… "Why do I need IPv6? Is there more about IPv6 available from Microsoft? Is there anything I need to do to support IPv6 in Windows Vista or Windows 7?" Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is
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An update on some of the recent daylight saving time changes around the world coming this year to Morocco, Pakistan, Syria and Tunisia in 2009… It's been a busy time, reflected in fewer than normal postings on this blog, but happily it's due in part (when
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