'Bill Gates, on the Millennium Bug issue: "There is no problem with PCs and with
packaged software."
And to prove it, Microsoft has a whole section of it's web site devoted to detailing the various
non-problems at www.microsoft.com/year2000. Quoted on BusinessWorld Online Roundtable
with Bill Gates, March 20, 1998. Submitted by Candace Skalet.
AND...
Bill Gates again: "Any program where you still have somebody around who
remembers the program, it's pretty simple to go find the place that they
compare dates. You don't compare dates that many places in a program. It's in
very, very few places. Even if you do it in a lot of places, there's a way of
fooling the system by just taking all the dates you put in and subtracting 30
years before you put them in and adding 30 years when you put them out. There
are some clever ways to get around it."
And of course, we're still awaiting Microsoft MagicBullet2000™, coming to a retailer near you
real soon... Quoted on Microsoft's Q&A Session with Bill Gates, May 8, 1997. Also submitted
by Candace Skalet.'
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