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[News] [Rival] OOXML-esque Bugs Inherent in Mission-Critical Microsoft Software

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] OOXML-esque Bugs Inherent in Mission-Critical Microsoft Software
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:04:56 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Microsoft codes leap year bug into Exchange 2007

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| As the international Honor Society of Leap Year Day Babies continues to gripe 
| about the 25-year-old leap year bug infesting Microsoft Excel, word has 
| arrived that Microsoft Exchange doesn't understand leap years either. On 
| Friday - Leap Year Day 2008 - many Exchange installations went on the fritz 
| because they expected March 1 instead of February 29.    
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/04/microsoft_admits_to_exchange_leap_year_bug/


Related:

DST change reveals stone-age OS routines

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| While we await for the U.N., the clockmasters of the world, or someone else 
| to fill this need for a central DST database, what is Microsoft's solution to  
| all this?. They put their stellar defender blogger to babble. In a recent 
| post, product manager Alejandro "OpenOffice is more expensive than Microsoft 
| Office" Panicke said the firm "is working internally to create a new Time 
| Zone that reflects the change, but as happens with everything, it will take 
| some time.". No pun intended, surely. But really, as KLF said: what time is 
| love?.      
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/30/dst-change-snafu-shows-stone-age-routines


Microsoft preps customers early in hopes of avoiding DST fallout

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=718


Bang Goes the DST Time Bomb

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| Monday brought more jeers than cheers from IT organizations
| about daylight-saving time fixes and the immediate impact
| on Microsoft software.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/business_applications/bang_goes_the_dst_time_bomb.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/ynsvra


Microsoft Customers Irate over Daylight-Saving Time Woes

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| Updated: This year's daylight-saving time change is causing major
| frustration for IT administrators running Microsoft programs that
| need to be individually patched to reflect the change.  
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2102366,00.asp


No Saving Time in Microsoft DST Patches?

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| IT managers are feeling grumpy about Microsoft's preparations for
| this year's early daylight-saving time. If anything, the situation
| shines another glaring light on patch management problems, how long
| Microsoft supports products and how much longer businesses tend to
| use them.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/operating_systems/no_saving_time_in_microsoft_dst_patches.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
http://tinyurl.com/2rvf3a


Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches

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| A number of users in the DST chat room are reporting problems
| getting their Blackberry servers and devices to sync up with
| their DST-patched Exchange servers. Others, in spite of Microsoft
| warnings to apply DST patches in a specific order, are running
| into problems because they are attempting to patch Exchange
| before Windows.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=307


Microsoft Cuts Price of Daylight Savings Time Patches

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| For users running that software, Microsoft charges $4,000 per product
| for DST fixes. 
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,129550-c,industrynews/article.html


Microsoft's plans for XP

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| In yet another conspiracist theory, I explain how Microsoft plans to phase 
| out XP and force upgrades to Vista. 
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/92724/index.html

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