Chaz,
Received this email of data from somewone. What is wrong with modern software developers? Its not like the Year 2000 was something that came out of nowhere and caught everyone by surprise. Does UNIX have the same problem with dates? One of the big selling points for Win98 must be the "Now includes century in all dates! A Windows98 Exclusive! Upgrade now!".
"Where In Time Do You Want To Go Today?"
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REDMOND, WASHINGTON, 1998 APR 15 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams, Newsbytes.
Microsoft Corporation [NASDAQ:MSFT] has announced details of Year
2000 compliance tests it has carried out on its own software. The
company says there are some problems with some of its most popular
products, including versions of Windows 95, MS-DOS, Office, Word,
PowerPoint, Visual Basic and Internet Explorer.
The information was announced as the company launched its new Year
2000 Web site, at microsoft.com .
It said minor problems were found in: Fox Pro 2.6; Internet Explorer
(32 bit) 3.0, 3.01, 3.02, 4.0, 4.01; MS-DOS 6.22; Office 4.x Standard;
Office 95 Professional and Standard; Outlook Express (Mac) 4.0;
PowerPoint 4.0; SQL Server 6.5 Enterprise, Small Business Server;
Visual Basic 5.0, 4.0, 3.0, 2.0, 1.0; Visual C++ Professional,
Learning Edition 5.0; Visual Source Safe 5.0; Visual Studio Enterprise
5.0; Windows 95 4.00.950; Windows for Workgroups 3.11; Windows NT
Server, Standard / Enterprise 4.0; Windows NT Workstation 4.0; Word
95 7.0; and Word 6.0.
In the case of Windows 95, the core operating system would not be
affected but some "minor" functions, such as the file finder function
would not be able to correctly sort files by date.
Microsoft said non-compliant software was Access 2.0 and Word for
MS-DOS 5.0. Word will become useless after 2000 as it will not be able
to save files.
In testing its software, Microsoft looked at five main criteria. To
be certified as Year 2000 complaint, the software must be capable
of storing and calculating dates in four-digit format, converting
user-entered two digit dates correctly to four digits, calculating
leap years correctly, not using special values for dates with its
operational range, and functioning through until 2035.
Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com
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