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.
Products affected are Windows 2000, Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2000, among others. Microsoft explains in a PowerPoint document distributed to analysts
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Products affected are Windows 2000, Exchange Server 2000 and Outlook 2000, among others. 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.A Microsoft spokesman was quoted saying the $4,000 price represents a "substantial discount" and that it was merely to "cover costs".
"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."
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/sarcasm
Software companies are getting way to greedy and they need to be brought down to earth. The idiots who pay out for this sort of thing need to wake up and stop being sheep.
how can this fix be so freaking expensive... LOL
no way.
4k...
eh yea... thats a horrible nice discount but the price stays ridiculous...
hey... a discount from 1m to 500k would be a good saving either, still a freaking price...
Glassed Silver:mac
And we thought Vista was bad... hahaha.
Just to cover the cost's - My arse it is !
They charge people that kinda money, in the hope that they will buy the newer version's, for less money !
If it indeed costs $4,000 or $40,000, still it only cost that ONCE to develop.
I could see them keeping their older products vibrant for longer by releasing the fixes that were paid for by one firm or another that HAD TO HAVE THEM BAD and paid the price, for the masses.
But that would slow adoption of the new version.
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