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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues
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To: Christine Traut who wrote (5512)4/13/1999 7:45:00 PM
From: Jim  Read Replies (1) of 9818
 
Christine:

Your arguments are well presented.

It reminds me of when I used to receive new versions of DOS for the IBM 1401 and /360 computers (I believe release 26 was the last one). Along with the release came a list of KNOWN bugs. Further updates 26.1, 26.2 etc. would fix these known bugs (and perhaps cause other ones). We would go through these bug alerts and determine if any would cause us any problems. Most were for very obscure situations that we would never run into.

I think almost ALL software that is released has a few problems. By the time all bugs are identified and fixed, it is time for the next release (ie. W98). Has Microsoft published a list of which parts of their software is not "compliant"?

Thank you for your link to ITAA. Being in Canada, I am not familiar with this organization. Does this mean than only 116 companies have submitted their software for compliance testing or are the rest still working on their software. I will keep checking this site to see as new companies are added.

Hopefully companies like Intuit have already tested their software with W95 and W98 so it will keep working. Since I tested Quicken with W95 after changing the date to Jan 2000, any I don't think any MSFT Y2K bugs will affect me.

One man's opinion.

Jim

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