Re: 4/12/05 vs. Tax Professionals Deadline of 4/15/05. WHAAAAAT!!

No, no, no!! And pls don't assume I have or have not read about any of the
bad journalism of which you refer! It was a close personal friend of mine who
forwarded the Tech Republic article to me. And it was I that then fwd'd the
article to my IT consulting firm, an extremely knowledgeable and
well-respected firm I might add, and expressed my own concern about having
ANY changes made to my system 3 days before deadline day. Of course SP2 shall
be installed on my desktop unit! Truth is, I actually have on hand the CD of
SP2 I requested from MS.

The salient point of my post had only to do with the (in my mind at least)
rather BAD timing of this action! Why couldn't they have chosen Saturday,
April 16th? That would have provided a weekend window of opportunity for
people to see how well the upgrade went! Do you not agree?

"Jupiter Jones [MVP]" wrote:

> Contrary to the bad journalism reports you have read, SP-2 is NOT going to
> be forced on any computer.
> If the people you hired convinced you extreme measures are necessary to
> prevent SP-2, you should hire someone with integrity willing to tell you the
> simple truth instead of a complex lie.
> The facts are here:
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar/forcesp2.htm
>
> --
> Jupiter Jones [MVP]
> http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
> In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol
> http://www.dts-l.org
>
>
> "A Numbers-Type of Guy in San Francisco!"
> <ANumbersTypeofGuyinSanFrancisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:8DF2374B-FFAD-4AA4-9D76-E4FEA8B05B1D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I'm a sole proprietor CPA with p-t tax season staff in San Francisco with
> > a
> > lot of work staring me in the face and due before April 15th. When a
> > friend
> > of mine first heard about the forced deployment of SP2 onto the masses
> > back
> > on March 1st, due to occur on April 12th by good ole Bill, he quickly
> > forwarded me the Tech Republic article with Subject Header: "Ready or not,
> > Windows XP update is coming". Luckily, last December I had decided to hire
> > a
> > local IT support group, Proactive Network Consulting, who have
> > successfully
> > installed a Dell server with SBS software, Veritas b/u s/w and Symantic
> > AntiVirus Groupware s/w. It's been a big relief to have them just a phone
> > call away for help when it's needed. Lawrence (the Big Cheese at
> > Proactive)
> > has assured me he will see that no such automatic download and
> > installation
> > of SP2 will occur into my main machine at any time before 4/16/05. I just
> > wonder ... didn't ANYONE working on the SP2 forced distribution consider
> > us
> > poor number-crunching tax preparers when they decided upon April 12th as
> > their chosen date???
> > --
> > One of many 100's of members of "Mama's" Extended Family!
>
>
>
.

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