Re: DST woes - you won't believe this one

Sigh...big businesses lose their ability to reason clearly.....

Pete Helgren

Mike Cunningham wrote:

I just read this article earlier this week ...

Microsoft have decided to reduce the pricing of a patch to fix the new March 11 date for 
Daylight Saving Time (DST) from a whopping $40,000 to a mere $4000 for products that have left 
mainstream support and have entered the "Extended" support phase, according to 
Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley <http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=288> .

Products affected are Windows 2000, Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2000, among others <http://support.microsoft.com/gp/dst_prodlist> . Microsoft explains in a PowerPoint document distributed to analysts

        "For products that have entered into the Extended Support phase, 
Microsoft will provide customers with the opportunity to purchase the DST 2007 
hotfix at a reduced price of Four Thousand Dollars (US $4,000). Customers will only 
be charged a single fee of $4,000 to obtain all hotfixes, for products in Extended 
Support phase, needed to update their systems for DST 2007.
        
        "For customers who have previously purchased DST 2007 hotfixes for products 
in Extended Support, Microsoft will reimburse the difference to them under the new 
pricing category."

A Microsoft spokesman was quoted saying the $4,000 price represents a "substantial 
discount" and that it was merely to "cover costs".


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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Darrell A Martin
Sent: Fri 3/16/2007 2:41 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: DST woes - you won't believe this one




This is just too ... well, it just is.

1. User is running Win2KPro on a laptop.
2. Automated updates don't work for some reason.
3. Network admin forced critical updates earlier this week to deal with
Y2Klock.
4. User lost all personal settings, including connection to network
printer.

So, the network admin has been trying to fry other fish this week, and
every morning I have been resetting the time on about 2/3 of all the
Win-based servers and PCs acting as servers. Today I finally got a chance
to look at the above user's laptop.

5. Got the printer connected.
6. Verified that (for the moment) the time was correct to within a second
or two.
7. Attempted a manual Windows Update using the Microsoft Web site.
8. Got an error. The message was:

   -----------------------------
   You cannot download this file
   because your date and time
   are not properly synched ...
   -----------------------------

"Sorry, you can't go in the Emergency Room because you are bleeding too
profusely."

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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