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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: B.K.Myers who wrote (5498)4/13/1999 7:54:00 AM
From: Christine Traut  Read Replies (3) of 9818
 
B.K.:

A very insightful point that Microsoft has a family of products, many of them built upon legacy systems. I find their situation particularly instructive because so many innocents still think that Bill Gates will find the 'magic bullet' to save us all from Y2K. Heck, they are putting windowing techniques into Windows 95 - an operating system - which sounds like a disaster in the making for applications running on it to me.

I wonder what you think about my observation that Microsoft seems to be running a 'gee guys, it's only a bug' campaign. Sounds like you, Cheeky. :) Last time I looked, Y2K was a design flaw. At least a design flaw anytime after, oh, 1980 or so. If this isn't a wake up call about industry quality control, I don't know what is.

I'm very concerned that Microsoft is not committing to really fix anything. In fact, they seem to be coming out with a workaround strategy. And I have reason to suspect that the underlying architecture of Windows 2000 is just as messed up on the two digit date issue as what came before it.

Do you think that enterprises and individual consumers will just meekly accept that Microsoft products will now just be more unstable than ever? I'm rebooting an average of twice a day as it is. Putting my PC through nothing more than surfing and writing.

Christine
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