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Microsoft to charge for Daylight Saving hotfixes for older products | |
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| Time: 00:24 EST/05:24 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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March 11, the new date on which Daylight Saving Time (DST) will take effect in the U.S. and a growing number of other countries, is fast approaching. And Microsoft is working overtime to get the message out that users need to patch a bunch of their Microsoft products, from Exchange Server, to Windows Mobile, in order to head off date-change headaches. There's one bit of DST fine print that Microsoft isn't sharing quite so readily, however. (I discovered it by wading through a slide deck that Microsoft is providing to analysts to get them up-to-speed on the company's DST guidance.) Page 20 of the deck mentions that Microsoft has decided, due to the number of customers and products affected by the DST 2007 changes, to "amend the regular Extended Hotfix support program." If you need to patch older Microsoft products that already have moved from "Mainstream" to "Extended" support phase, Microsoft will give you a chance to buy the hotfixes you need — for $4,000. |
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| #1 By 8556 (12.207.97.148) at Thursday, March 01, 2007 08:34:06 AM |
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This is an early April fools joke, right? Customer support is being redefined in amazing new ways at MS. The current spate of price gouging will some day bite MS in their big greedy asses.
Web Time is free and takes a split second to run and update your clock. |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, March 01, 2007 08:54:58 AM |
| #1: It's amazing what kind of shenanigans you can inflict on your customers when you have a monopoly. The funny part is how MS can keep kicking people in the goolies harder and harder, year after year, and yet the people line up for more. |
| #3 By 6175 (164.223.72.5) at Thursday, March 01, 2007 08:57:43 AM |
| I figured when they started handing these out, they'd appear on sites to download for free. (just like every other M$ product) |
| #4 By 37047 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, March 01, 2007 09:22:19 AM |
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If you think $4000 for the hotfixes for DST 2007 is expensive, then keep in mind that this is the reduced price. Originally, they charged $40,000 for any fix to extended support OSes. They are being "generous" in lowering the price to this specific patch.
For $4000, I'd have to have a whole lot of PCs to manage to make it worth spending that much for the hotfix, rather than making the changes manually myself. |
| #5 By 9589 (66.56.135.191) at Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:26:40 AM |
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I guess it wouldn't be too much to ask Foley to actually name the OS versions that would require spending $4000? For example, if you are still using a six+ year OS (Windows 2000) and if you have installed SP4, proceed using the wizard here: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/cp_dst. If you haven't installed SP4, get out your check book.
If you are using an eight or ten+ year or more OS (Windows ME, 98SE, 98, or 95) get out your check book. Or, when DST occurs, simply update your system clock and stop whining. |
| #6 By 3746 (72.12.166.62) at Thursday, March 01, 2007 07:14:33 PM |
| If you read the instructions they are providing ways to manually update for the change for those OSs out of support. Also, it takes about 3 seconds to find and unoffical patch for 2000, NT4, 98, 95 and ME. |
