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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: John Mansfield who wrote (4672)3/15/1999 5:35:00 PM
From: Christine Traut  Read Replies (3) of 9818
 
John:

Great find on the Cringely article regarding Microsoft's poor Y2K preparation. I am still amazed at how many people think that new software is Y2K compliant. Here is an excerpt on Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, which runs hundreds of thousands of corporate servers and internet sites.

<Now pretend you are in charge of computers for some big company. This is March. Y2K is looming. In order to be ready for the end of the year, the smart thing to do is "freeze" all software by June 30. This means Microsoft is almost out of runway. If there is not a 100 percent complete and reliable Y2K fix for Windows NT real soon, things will get ugly.

Is anyone in Redmond on top of this? Not that I can see.>

Couple that with my discovery that Microsoft defines 'compliant' as something along the lines of 'we'll be able to fix it eventually'. No one has yet commented on my point that every Microsoft IE 4.0 browser has Y2K problems and will need to be patched, even though their Web site lists it as 'Y2K compliant'. For those of you using AOL to surf this site, you are using the Microsoft browser. And it is not Y2K ready.

Hello out there! Think John Koskinen understands this? Or does he just think that we'll all get around to fixing a few million PCs right before Christmas? Assuming Microsoft ever gets the software working.
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