I just can't believe Microsoft!

As you know, daylight savings time is starting 4 weeks earlier this year. Microsoft has published some utilities to make life with some Microsoft products easier during this change in our schedules, but has also taken the opportunity to make a huge killing off this as well.

If you are still using an OS, mail server software or domain server software that Microsoft no longer supports such as Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows Server 2000, SQL7.0, SQL2000 -- a pretty comprehensive list -- you will not only be charged for the utility (up to $4,000), but be required to purchase extended service warranty at an up to $100,000 price tag!

This is either

1. a: going to force people to hump along for a month with their time out of synch with the rest of the world,
2. b: force some people to shell out the money to support their older software or
3. c: force some people to upgrade to the newer version of whatever Microsoft product they're currently using.

In all but the first scenario, Microsoft will reap mega $$$ and in my opinion, the prices they want to charge are highway robbery!

Now, I've been a Microsoft supporter for a good many years and just recently purchased a new computer with Vista on it. I've always taken those who take every opportunity to show Microsoft in an unflattering light with a grain of salt, but this time, there's some reason to shake the "shame on you" finger at them.

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