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To: JBTFD who wrote (5701)	5/13/1999 1:06:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (2) of 9818

Mark: Sorry to take a few days to debate this with you - I've been limited to lurking. You ask <For example, how likely is it that there will be a gauranteed y2k compliant personal computer with a minimal software package on the shelves by, say September?...by the end of the year?> I'd be willing to bet a bundle that the only 'guarantee' you will see would be so limited as to be worthless. Compaq, for example, has been guaranteeing their BIOS, but given that you still have to deal with operating system, application software, user and shared data....not such a useful guarantee. I spoke to my college alumni group on Monday. The usual speaker lunches get perhaps 10 people - 40 showed for the Y2K topic! So the Concerned Civilians have it on their radar screen. Everyone was pretty shocked to find out that Microsoft was going to wait until June (when they are scheduled to put up a consumer Y2K Web site) to let them know that they would have to patch all of their software. What is still amazing to me is that very few people know that they should be demanding a Y2K compliant guarantee on their new PCs. Christine

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