Star Microsoft Customers Irate Over Daylight-Saving Time Woes
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 11th Mar 2007 20:14 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Microsoft The extension of daylight-saving time by a month in the United States is causing enormous grief for some IT administrators running Microsoft software, as many of the software programs running on their users' systems need to be individually patched to reflect the change. This year, daylight-saving time starts today - three weeks earlier than usual - and ends a week later than usual on Nov. 4.
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RE[4]: Not Surprising
by archiesteel on Mon 12th Mar 2007 17:30 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Not Surprising"
archiesteel
Member since:
2005-07-02

"For most IT departments, that's a negligible cost"

4,000$ is *not* a negligible cost for any SMB.

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RE[5]: Not Surprising
by jayson.knight on Mon 12th Mar 2007 18:11 in reply to "RE[4]: Not Surprising"
jayson.knight Member since:
2005-07-06

"4,000$ is *not* a negligible cost for any SMB."

Then they aren't budgeting correctly. In the end it's only 2-3 weeks of times being off, so it comes down to which can they afford least of all: Times being off, or patching all of their legacy machines.

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RE[6]: Not Surprising
by archiesteel on Mon 12th Mar 2007 19:39 in reply to "RE[5]: Not Surprising"
archiesteel Member since:
2005-07-02

Well, to me that's a glaring example of MS pressuring SMBs to upgrade for what is really a trivial upgrade.

4000$ for a SMB is expensive, and it's not a matter of budgeting correctly or not.

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RE[5]: Not Surprising
by Robert Escue on Mon 12th Mar 2007 19:09 in reply to "RE[4]: Not Surprising"
Robert Escue Member since:
2005-07-08

I think the $4,000.00 price tag for the fix is being overhyped. I used the following page and patched our Windows 2000 Servers for free:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387

The other products (such as Exchange) if you are not running the latest versions will require parting with some cash:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb267339.aspx

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