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you should tattle on them to the Canadian gov.
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i prefer that they keep paying me. my rear end is covered, everything is documented and all emails are retained. if snowden leaks their secret plan to lobby for socialized maple syrup it's not going to be on me
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Jul 10, 2014 18:57
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surely you can do it anonymously
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Jul 10, 2014 18:57
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don't call me shirley and, sure, i could. but government contracts are a big part of their business, if they lose that they won't have as much money to spend on me my job is to tell them they're out of compliance and recommend steps to avoid those issues, if they ignore it it's their problem. i ain't going to rat them out
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Jul 10, 2014 19:00
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if you inform on them then suddenly they need to find a new solution and that means more consulting dollars for you
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Jul 10, 2014 19:01
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api call girl posted:microsoft's "customers" are already paying yearly subscriptions and have been for years and years I hope this helps my company employs over 1000 ppl and only last year upgraded from xp and office 2007 up to win7 and office 2010. so theyve been paying yearly subscriptions to MS for this privilege?
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Jul 10, 2014 19:03
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top secret snowden leak: maple syrup comes drugged from the communist paradises of canada and vermont. drink table syrup aka corn syrup with artificial flavoring if you don't want to be brainwashed
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Jul 10, 2014 19:03
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:my company employs over 1000 ppl and only last year upgraded from xp and office 2007 up to win7 and office 2010. so theyve been paying yearly subscriptions to MS for this privilege? yes you need whatever the gently caress they're calling it now to access old versions of office
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Jul 10, 2014 19:05
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:my company employs over 1000 ppl and only last year upgraded from xp and office 2007 up to win7 and office 2010. so theyve been paying yearly subscriptions to MS for this privilege? they're probably paying for software assurance on the licenses so they could have upgraded at any point even though they didn't
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:my company employs over 1000 ppl and only last year upgraded from xp and office 2007 up to win7 and office 2010. so theyve been paying yearly subscriptions to MS for this privilege? yes, because unless they're idiots they've been paying for software assurance on those licenses the whole time. they didn't just go to the store and buy 1000 copies of office and windows 7, they've had the right to use whatever the latest version is since release. they just finally got around to testing and deploying the new software. if they were masochists and hated you all they could upgrade with every single release if they wanted to
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infernal machines posted:
that's my job you don't want it
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flakeloaf: professional snitch
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has anyone said satya nutella yet
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shame about the belt, he should do a casual Tom Cruse from Collateral thing
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Jul 10, 2014 19:22
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infernal machines posted:yes, because unless they're idiots they've been paying for software assurance on those licenses the whole time. they didn't just go to the store and buy 1000 copies of office and windows 7, they've had the right to use whatever the latest version is since release. they just finally got around to testing and deploying the new software. brb demanding a win8 install asap
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Jul 10, 2014 20:24
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:brb demanding a win8 install asap rip
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TerminalRaptor posted:It really is a 'magic' in the sense that it completely defies reality in how it is determined and why MBAs flock to purchase poo poo listed on it. the magic part is the algorithm they use to map a circular dartboard to the square box
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theadder posted:whats the status of the lifeboats op non-technical women and children only
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:my company employs over 1000 ppl and only last year upgraded from xp and office 2007 up to win7 and office 2010. so theyve been paying yearly subscriptions to MS for this privilege? lmao
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lmao
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sorry I'm not a cj wise in the ways of microsoft licensing contracts. i assumed there was something in between "buy 1000 copies of office on amazon" and "pay ms yearly to "support" a product that is 3 years old. presumably you need this so you can call and complain when the latest windows update patch breaks everything?
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well there's also the fact that microsoft support can oftentimes be completely useless anyway like, one of the few companies that did go all-in on the office 365 with full office license package had one user on an xp machine and the office 2010 that was still available at the time (but only for another few months) just completely refused to activate, there was some gently caress-up on the server side. about 5 hours of jumping through ms support hoops and several days of waiting later, the answer came down and was basically "yeah, even though we publicly said you'd still be able to download office 2010, we're taking a mulligan on that declaration and actually your account is just glitched by letting you download the 2010 installer, you're only allowed to get 2013. ticket closed" 
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Jul 10, 2014 21:08
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that's basically the right thing to do to customers that are complaining about things not working on xp
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infernal machines posted:that's basically the right thing to do to customers that are complaining about things not working on xp well, yes, minus the 5 hours of pissing around and the fake software download links
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my dad was telling me that his work just barely finished a migration from 2000 to xp lol will post again when they finish w7 migration in 2016
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i have a client that still has an NT4 server on their domain, running some old production DB that's never been updated it fucks with everything because they can't raise the domain schema functional level past win2k without it breaking, which means all their fancy new servers are constantly spamming AD errors
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i left a job a year ago for a very big biomedical company that was still rolling out xp machines to new hires i mean it was biomed so the os had to work with all kinds of weird unmaintained software and weird lab hardware and comply with a zillion different reporting requirements (sox fda and hippa oh boy!) but still... the win7 migration project was literally four years behind schedule (it started as the vista migration project lmfao)
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Jul 10, 2014 22:11
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there's big money to be made consulting on software deployment in those cases, the project never ends and they can't defund it even though it's going nowhere
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the way software assurance is set up makes the decision to drop it reeeaaall difficult. the cost for particular licenses drops off massively after 3 years, so in the long run it costs a lot less than buying upgrades the agreements don't really scale down at all, only up (ito no of licenses). if you drop sa and then decide to go back on you're back to paying the much more expensive initial prices again.
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Jul 10, 2014 22:21
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our oldest server is a vm running 2003 as our wsus 
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Jul 10, 2014 22:29
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api call girl posted:our oldest server is a vm running 2003 as our wsus good lord. migrate that poo poo, it will run on anything with enough storage and migrating the config DB is trivial
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gonna kill our last 3 2003r2s before the end of the year hello new schema level!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AtomD posted:if you drop sa and then decide to go back on you're back to paying the much more expensive initial prices again. 
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AtomD posted:gonna kill our last 3 2003r2s before the end of the year yeah, I just got everything up to 2008r2 in time to start rolling out 2012r2. it never ends.
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Jul 10, 2014 22:32
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welcome to windows where running a 10 year old server os is business as usual
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welcome to production networks
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yeah except the latest rhel 6 release was just a couple seconds ago!! owned bitch
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lol welcome to production networks  ahahaha lol welcome to.. production.. bitch. windows style. 2k3
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I hear you can run AD off Samba4 now, that must be fun
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