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The question I was asked as I was making my sandwich at an onsite conference... "So, you work with the product groups... what's happening in Albany today?" No, that should be "What is Albany?" See the news here on the Beta launch of New All-in-One Service
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A popular question over the last few days... "What is going on in Iraq next week on daylight saving time?" As I noted earlier, it looks like Iraq will not observe daylight saving time this year . The change is currently scheduled to take effect on April
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I woke up today and logged on to mail to find not one or two messages, but more than a few questions about support from Microsoft on SP1... "Is Microsoft helping customers with SP1 installations?" "If someone went to [Windows Update] last week and downloaded
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My friend, Sean, has a post from January on how he's not feelin' the love so much from McDonald's , specifically how the company doesn't accept unsolicited proposals. This was sent to me today: http://www.mcdonalds.com/contact/contact_us/unsolicited_ideas.html
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Related to the regular updates made to our pages on time , Steven asked this week... "Is there something that customer can plug into, like subscribing to monthly security alerts, for DST [and, I'll add, time zone] updates?" No, not directly. You can enable
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I received two notes on this happy leap day that there was a problem someone was having in with accounting for leap years in their code. Both were quickly solved. The first was programming for a leap year that turned out to be a common problem. The programmer
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I get the question a lot on sleep vs. hibernate (and as noted in a recent post ), and it came up today in a discussion. "I'm confused by the different selections I have in the Start menu... when should I use Sleep and Hibernate to turn off my computer?"
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This weekend will mark another interesting milestone in Time and Date, oone that actually doesn't occur for thirty more years, in 2038. Also known as the 'Friday the 13th' bug, the 2038 issue is due to the way 32-bit systems note time in seconds rather
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OK, lots of feedback (generally positive) from folks on my post from yesterday, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Refresh is publicly available. Should you install it- Depends . I guess that yesterday's game in Green Bay had folks in a bad mood... One of
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Lynn asks... "We just got a new PC at home, and we moved all of our old files to it. How should I back up my new Windows Vista computer?" First, check out the information on the Windows Backup and Restore Center page : in Windows Vista, this is one way
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I received this question (thanks, Mark) about the new HP MediaSmart Home Server ... "What's the difference between my current PC (with Windows Vista) and the new Windows Home Server from HP?" Good question. As noted on our site, Windows Home Server is
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Lisa and Jeannie asked... "How do we archive our mail in Outlook?" Look no further than Microsoft Office Online website for more info on how to file or archive your e-mail on your own computer . "Learn the different Microsoft Outlook methods for storing
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Adrienne asks... "How should I manage my home network to keep it safe?" Of interest, from the MS.com website, 10 tips for maintaining a healthy home network by Joli Ballew, author and media and technology expert (as adapted from Windows Vista: Home Networking
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This from Holly (hope you're well ;) "How/where do you remove an email address that automatically comes up when you type in a name? For example, somebody had a another email address that you’ve deleted and updated but, somewhere in memory it gets pulled
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A question from the Technical Deep-Dive LiveMeeting today on DST and Time Zones today... "I believe Victoria, Australia will be extending daylight savings by a week (ending April 6, 2008 instead of end of March '08) is this covered [in the latest Windows
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