I feel your pain. We didn't get it very bad, just a few boxes, but all the patching and the confs. calls and the frantic messages from the manager late last night have not been very much fun.
Got infected here on my work laptop. They push their own security updates so we're not able to manually do the Windows Update. Oh well I got to go home early yesterday.
My wife works for American Express. All their offices were pooched except for the IT Department who were testing the patch the night before they got raped. I suspect it was an IT person who let it loose on accident in their company.
We have not patched shit, and most our systems are W2kSP4.
I bet we will be fucked anyday now, but it is a union shop and seniority trumps competence. My desktop is updated, and all the ones I directly maintain, but the rest of the place is going to be scary.
She Dreams in Digital
\"Led Zeppelin taught an entire generation of young men how to make love, if they just listen\"- Michael Reed(2005)
You cheap bastards! Upgrade to XP! Hurry up! If you don't upgrade soon you'll wait and upgrade to Vista and as slow as corporations are to upgrade, that won't be until 2007.
My home PC is XP. Corporate America moves pretty slow when you have 50,000+ employees. We're in the process of migrating now though. I was scheduled a month ago but logistical problems put the kibosh on that.
We had problems on a few older servers running 2000 but in general most of our Intel servers are running 2003, Linux or were patched. Non of the desktops were effected. While there were still a number of servers to take care of it really wasn't too bad here. As far as I know all US desktops are XP and we are in the process of updating our European offices now.
If you look through MS's financials, customers not upgrading to XP was a fairly large concern to them over the summer. Large enough to get entered into disclosures anyway.
When 70% of your user base never bothers to upgrade to your latest offering, even though they can do it for free you have to wonder if they'll upgrade at the same level of support next time. Especially when they've pushed the releases out so far that those same customers got nothing for the enterprise agreements they currently are under. MS support is worthless, people only get the contracts for the free upgrades and they (MS) know it.
"Life is what happens while you're making plans for later."
it costs a shitload for large companies to upgrade all of their machines too, especially since for most people there aren't measurable improvements between 2k and XP in terms of desktop productivity.
MS support is worthless, people only get the contracts for the free upgrades and they (MS) know it.
Also, people don't want to have to take language lessons in order to understand the support they are getting that is being read from a form or book anyhow.
