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Mar 4, 2008

Email tip: A peer-to-peer discussion group does not come with a service level agreement

Raymond Chen

Most email discussion groups are not official support channels. There are a lot of peer-to-peer mailing lists inside Microsoft, consisting of people who are interested in a particular topic, sharing tips, providing advice, helping each other out if somebody runs into a problem, but they aren't the official support mechanism for the product group. ...

Mar 3, 2008

What do rocket scientists say when they want to say that something isn’t hard?

Raymond Chen

It's not rocket science.

Mar 3, 2008

Why does scheduling a task require a password?

Raymond Chen

Kevin asks, "Windows XP lets me install applications, delete files, etc., so why does scheduling a task requires a password?" (I guess the answer to this question wasn't obvious since nobody answered it in the suggestion box.) Because scheduled tasks run after you have logged off. All those other operations occur while you are logged on. Yo...