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Microsoft Charging Businesses $4K for DST Fix

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pricey-way-to-tell-time dept.

eldavojohn writes "Microsoft has slashed the price it's going to charge users on the daylight saving time fixes. As you know, the federal law that moves the date for DST goes into effect this month. Although the price of $4000 is 1/10 of the original estimate Microsoft made, it seems a bit pricey for a patch to a product you've already paid for. From the article: 'Among the titles in that extended support category are Windows 2000, Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2000, the e-mail and calendar client included with Office 2000. For users running that software, Microsoft charges $4,000 per product for DST fixes. For that amount, customers can apply the patches to all systems in their organizations, including branch offices and affiliate.' The only thing they can't do, said a Microsoft rep, is redistribute them."

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  1. Re:things that make you go hmmm... by MyLongNickName · · Score: 1, Funny

    Put on your tinfoil hat. The more sane explanation is that Bush needed a way to say "he is saving the environment" without appropriating any money, and certainly not taking money away from an Iraq occupation. However, if you insist on brining Microsoft into every conspiracy, go ahead. But can I ask you give me the lithium you aren't taking? I can sell it for a few bucks.

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  2. Re:things that make you go hmmm... by TheSHAD0W · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey - I don't have to believe in conspiracies in order to spread rumors about them. ;-)

  3. innovation by Epiphenomenon · · Score: 5, Funny

    I for one think that $4000 for innovation like this is a small price to pay.

  4. Down with DST! by astrosmash · · Score: 4, Funny

    That was one expensive piece of pointless legislation.

    I've always felt that if we could harness all of the time and energy software developers and IT departments have spent over the years working on DST-related issues in software and apply it to some other purpose of good, we'd all be driving around in flying cars and taking vacations on the moon by now. It is 2007, after all. You know, the future?

    That's right. I'm blaming the state of the world on DST.

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    1. Re:Down with DST! by RealGrouchy · · Score: 2, Funny

      So what you're saying is that DST is wasting time, and not saving it?

      (ducks)

      - RG>

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  5. Hickup? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Is that the sound of a Southerner making a mistake?

  6. Re:Screw 'em by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey Jobe, Wake the 'Hick Up'!!!

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