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Spooler service stops

Posted on July 28, 2011 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Spooler service stops

The case of the mysterious stopping spooler has been solved. At least this time. Good old Microsoft. You send in errors, look up errors and can not find anything from Microsoft itself. Half the time the people in the Technet Forums treat people with almost a snark to them, and don’t listen. Canned answers, no…

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Monday Microsoft Musings

Posted on April 20, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on Monday Microsoft Musings

Monday morning, another work week starting, and a bunch of thoughts and questions about Microsoft for you all. First off, how does Microsoft determine when it is going to release new software? SBS 2008, which has Exchange 2007 built in it, just came out in November, and now Exchange 2010 is in beta. How fast…

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More on XP and other End of Cycles software

Posted on April 7, 2009 By Michael Kavka No Comments on More on XP and other End of Cycles software

So, while mainstream support is ending for Windows XP, it seems that Microsoft is going to continue to allow downgrades by manufacturers until sometime next year. Yeah, this is both good and bad, especially considering that warranty support ends on Tuesday, April 14. Are the PC makers going to do warranty support for XP still…

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