Foley reports, “Microsoft’s online DST chat room — which Microsoft is currently keeping open from 6 a.m. PST to 9 p.m. PST to handle customers’ questions — is full of customers who can’t get their DST patches to work. Microsoft support phone lines are jammed with users with DST problems.”
“‘The workstation patches are easy, the stand alone Outlook tool is no big deal. If you’re running Exchange and you try to run the Exchange update tool 930879, good luck. It’s a crap shot,’ said Microsoft customer Paul Marsh,” Foley reports.
Foley reports, “Users with Windows 2000, Exchange 2000 and Exchange 5.5 — products that are no longer in mainstream support and thus are no longer covered under standard Microsoft support agreements are realizing that they need to pay Microsoft $4,000 in order to obtain DST patches for these products.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “JadisOne” for the heads up.]
Thousands of Microsoft customers running into problems is clockwork.
If they haven’t already, Windows-only suffers should be coming to a sad realization. Cancel or Allow?
MacDailyNews Note: On February 15, Apple released free Daylight Saving Time Updates for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.3 Panther which addressed recent changes in the way Daylight Saving Time will be observed in the U.S. and Canada beginning in March 2007 and includes the latest time zone information for the rest of the world.
Apple’s Daylight Saving Time Updates are available via Software Update and also as standalone installers:
• Daylight Saving Time Update (Tiger): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/daylightsavingtimeupdatetiger.html
• Daylight Saving Time Update (Panther): http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/daylightsavingtimeupdatepanther.html
Daylight Saving Time Fix 1.0 for earlier versions of Mac OS X: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/32030
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Apple releases Daylight Saving Time Updates (10.4 Tiger and 10.3 Panther) – February 15, 2007