Feb 19, 2007 | blog
It’s going to be very interesting to see how well the new Windows Home Server comes through for end users. One very neat twist is the way Home Server is going to manage disk space.
No more drive letters for Home Server clients for one thing. The new system will dynamically manage the drive space that is made available to the server and it’s clients. That should make it very simple for end-users as they leverage the online storage and automated backup features of the new system.
Via: Bink.nu – The Death of the Windows Drive Letters
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Feb 19, 2007 | blog
Ah, now this’ll be a great feature for all WM6 based devices. The ability of a free Hotmail account to push mail directly to your device is a great feature. Now if they can retro-fit that back into WM5, I think everyone would be happy. After all, WM5 has had the ability to perform this service with Exchange email systems since it shipped.
At least your next WM phone will have the capability!
Via: Being a new PM at Microsoft – Push Email with Windows Live Hotmail and Windows Mobile 6.0
Feb 17, 2007 | blog
So I got Office Pro a few weeks ago and found that I will need to pick up the other Office components as well. Pro comes with Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and a few other incidentals. I don’t count Access as a real app since I’ve seen a lot of shitty programming done with it.
Over the last year, I’ve become very fond of OneNote and will need to pick that app up as well as Visio, and probably Project. They are all too useful not to have them updated along with the rest.
Yes, I’ve been advocating an all-online office for several months, but I still need to have the MS Office suite to do business. By the way, the save to PDF add-on rocks.
Feb 2, 2007 | blog
So I’ve picked up Office 2007 Pro, and of course I need to try out the blogging feature that is built into the new version. We’ll see how this looks once posted.
Jan 31, 2007 | blog
WTF?
How many people have read the KB article (931667) over at Microsoft concerning the “Addressing the daylight saving time changes in 2007 using the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool“? Go read it, I’ll wait…
Ok, glad your back – now I know that it was really congress that passed this smelly turd along to everyone – thanks bastards – but it seems to me that Microsoft really dropped the ball on this. I mean, in the original design phase of Exchange and Outlook, they could have asked the question “what if the DST parameters change” and followed the conversation, just to see what ideas come up. Maybe there would have been a better design, maybe not. Maybe the way Exchange stores this information is the same way every calendaring system stores it. That’s a scary thought – that nobody ever thought of handling this kind of change on the fly!
Not only do you need to patch the systems so that the new range of DST for 2007 is properly set up in the system, but you have to run an update tool to convert all the appointment data in the data stores to the proper time for the meeting. That means that you have to run the tool on anything that stores its own calendar information.
So a stand-alone user needs to run the tool, and enterprises need to run the tool on their Exchange servers. This is all well and good, and hopefully will be a one-time deal, but what about all those archived PST files? What if someone pulls some archived recurring meeting and resends it to people? If you read the KB, there is a usage scenario that actually points out that it will not contain the correct meeting times.
There are more. If your mobile device (or other types) are not updated with the proper DST 2007 information, you could create an appointment or meeting (Task?) with a time setting that would not trigger a reminder at the time you expected it to – it would be an hour late.
Maybe I’m making too much out of this, but all I see for our help desk at work is a flood of calls that could have been prevented by MS long ago. Tell me I’m wrong!
Link to: Addressing the daylight saving time changes in 2007 using the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool
It’s going to be very interesting to see how well the new Windows Home Server comes through for end users. One very neat twist is the way Home Server is going to manage disk space.
