__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 14 March 2007 17:48 \__
> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> "Microsoft had two years to prepare for the DST change and left
>> Windows 2000 users with some scripts instead of a free hotfix
>> download," Pizzo said. "They offered a hotfix download for $4000!"
>>
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>> You have got to be kidding me. God...that should even make the
>> trolls groan.
>>
>
> Wow, US$4,000 for a patch for daylight correct? Those people in
> Microsoft certainly know how to squeeze their customers.
It's a mistake. They drive them away. But the amount of effort it takes to
patch such a sordid mess makes it seem necessary (old versions are by no
means modular and many programmers familiar with the code have already left
the building).
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