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

I have no reason why that date was chosen other than it is 240 days from the
release date.
However IIRC, it was originally 120 days and because of comments of many
large users, the date was extended.
It is really a non issue since it is easy to prevent installation of SP-2.

This issue only applies to the few users that installed that specific tool
in the first place.
Did you install the tool?

--
Jupiter Jones [MVP]
http://www3.telus.net/dandemar
In memory of our dear friend, MVP Alex Nichol
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"A Numbers-Type of Guy in San Francisco!"
<ANumbersTypeofGuyinSanFrancisco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:B7ADE2B6-B65F-45D4-9E5D-B35C8576225D@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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