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echo: osdebate
to: Robert Comer
from: mike
date: 2007-03-11 08:27:40
subject: Re: Microsoft Customers Irate over Daylight-Saving Time Woes

From: mike 

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 12:00:19 -0500, "Robert Comer"
 wrote:

>> I still cannot understand why MS Outlook needs to be patched?  Or other
>> MS applications.  Shouldn't MS Outlook (and other applications) be able
>> to obtain daylight savings info from the underlying OS?  It's not like
>> MS Outlook was written by some obscure software vendor that knows
>> nothing about the intermingling of apps and system software....
>
>Darn good question.


I see now we are hearing that Outlook does not need to be
"patched", it needs to be "updated".   I also see that
all the affected Microsoft
products need to be "updated" not "patched".

http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_prodlist



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