Mr JohnD,
Besides, you probably know who will benefit the most from Y2K.
Say, you had a 1950 junk car which can't run a min speed of 30 miles per hour on the high way, so the cheapest thing to do is buy a new car ( car is cheap nowadays), and dump the old one, instead of fixing the old one.
Say, your company is runing a 1975 Model of IBM main frame, which can not handle the Y2k problem, then the easiest and cheapest way to do is buy new pcs installed with win98 which can handle y2k problem . So you know who will benefit the most as Y2k is getting closer, the box makers, Intel, MSFT..etc. I expect MSFT's revenue and profit will shoot up as Y2k is closer thinking about so many old main frame, PCs running with 80486 +Win3.0 need to be replaced before y2k .That is another reason Microsoft did not want to release Win2000 too early, so that those need to upgrade their computers due to Y2k problem will only upgrade to win98, and after that they need to do another upgrade, i.e from win98 to win2000, this will help Microsoft's revenue and profit. |
