MS: $4,000 for Daylight Saving Fix
section: microsoft, for your questions: KezNews forum, 1.3.2007
Customers using Microsoft products that have entered their "Extended" support phase will need to fork over $4,000 for a patch that makes the software compatible with the new March 11 date for Daylight Saving Time (DST), according to Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley.
Among the
products affected that have left "Mainstream" support are Windows 2000, Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2000.
Foley learned of the cost in a PowerPoint presentation distributed to analysts, which explains that due to the number of customers affected by the DST change, Microsoft will not be charging the standard, pricey fee to join its Extended Support Hotfix program. Instead, customers can simply purchase the DST hotfixes they need for a flat $4,000 USD fee.
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Comments(13)
i am kinda flabergasted at the artical. ms has gone crazy. this is sad, like everything
else that ms does.
we still have a good amount of windows 2000 workstations and finally standardized on
office 2000 completely (very large organization). no way they are going to force us to
upgrade or pay to fix something they should still be supporting (2000 is only 6 years old
and is basically a streamlined windows xp).
also office 2000 does everything we
needed and see no reason to upgrade to xp or 2003 (and because of the new interface, we
are avoiding 2007).
we are also still using windows server 2000 and exchange
2000, and will not be upgrading any time soon.
i'm afraid we may not have the
budget for a company-wide upgrade (over 1000 installed user-base and over 20 servers). if
the $4000 covers all of our installed products, then it's not so bad, but if it is $4000
for each product, then we are screwed.
i'm sure we're not the only ones. there are other "companies" out there who are in
the same boat... especially if they are non-for-profit like us.
i patched my older systems with these updates.
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm#tzu
for the 4k you will get all non "mainstream" hotfixes and you can install them on as
many boxes you want in your organization.
- 1 price
- all patches
- all of your computers.
look, louie... if intel screwed up some chipsets would you agree if they would ask you to
pay more money for a working revision of that hardware?
i wouldn't!
here is it:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=66f1420c-df2d-400b-a8a9-ef9061a9a
3ca&displaylang=en
here is a free patch for dst:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/daylight%20saving%20fix%20download.asp
i'm
suprised the largest software company in the world can't fix customers os's for fee,
when the 'little' guys can. all that money and no love...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=66f1420c-df2d-400b-a8a9-ef9061a9
a3ca&displaylang=en&hash=5w8w8g0v2eq08f9zds2a4fkxngzninfqrv1fgb7laoqvlssqb3usokbws5dct5vyd
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direct download:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/f/a/afa62de4-b20d-44af-8548-c0e3b335f370/windowsx
p-kb931836-x86-enu.exe
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4000 dollars
By peppy on 01.03.2007 - 13:03