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Technology Stocks : 2000: Y2K Civilized Discussion
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (503)9/1/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Christine Traut  Read Replies (1) of 662
 
Ron:

My Microsoft information is informed rumor. I have no reason to believe that either Win 95 or 98 will do anything so dramatic as abend. But one of my favorite pieces of wisdom from the IEEE Congressional testimony is that you are -- lucky! -- if your software actually stops working. Then you know that you have a Y2K problem.

I very much doubt that even MSFT knows whether the Y2K problems in Win 95 and 98, coupled with the almost infinite ways that application programs can interact, would cause an abend or failure. I've had MSFT people tell me not to apply patches until December, which makes me think that they are still finding bugs in the operating systems. Just how likely does it then become that companies like Intuit (Quicken) could thoroughly test their software on the final Y2K compliant versions of 95 and 98.

This puts Microsoft right in the middle of the giant crapshoot that is Y2K.

I'm not putting all of my eggs in one basket. I expect that my Microsoft software will work. But I'm having Netscape running on Linux just in case. I know that that is Y2K compliant.

Christine

P.S. Notice that I failed to mention Windows NT under 'things which Christine has no reason to believe will cause abends'?
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