From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"mike"  wrote in message
news:86t7v2t4jura75k1ldns6mnuq17pea721v{at}4ax.com...
>>> 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".

Well it is a change that no one, not even Microsoft, could know beforehand,
so I think "update" is fair. To me, "patching" implies
an error in the software which in this case it is not.


Antti Kurenniemi

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