From: "Geo." 

With something like this, I have a feeling the negative effects will
outweigh the upgrade potential. For example it's a lot more likely a class
action lawsuit or congress may enact a new law if they don't act
responsibly.

W2K still has 3 years of extended support left. It has not been
discontinued and congress might not like MS playing this game especially
since it was congress who dictated this change.

Geo.

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> Could be they *want* it to be overpriced. If it was too cheap / easy to
> get, they'd end up having to support the older OS's far longer than they
> want. You know, make it painful for the users so hopefully they'll
> upgrade...
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:45eb9252{at}w3.nls.net...
>> If it's that simple to fix the problem, why is MS charging $4000 for a
>> fix?
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>> news:n2gmu2lcjiqln10aa0ukfv5tugum8r8945{at}4ax.com...
>>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:01:15 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>>
>>>>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>>>>news:e80mu2t12e1dlbgleockh60otapq1uis9g{at}4ax.com...
>>>>
>>>>>>So turn it into a cron job.
>>>>
>>>>> Sure, if they're networked in.  But what if they aren't?
>>>>
>>>>You go around to each machine and using your USB stick you
load the cron
>>>>job
>>>>on each machine using it's cron.
>>>>
>>>>The problem with NT and W2K is that the time zone controls
this so you
>>>>have
>>>>to actually change time zones instead of the clock, ie -400
or -500GMT
>>>
>>> Or import this registry update, or do any of the other things listed
>>> in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387.
>>>
>>
>
>

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