Trend Continues - The Infoliant Compliance Tracker(TM) Delta Report
Shows One-Third of All Y2K Compliance Status Changes in May are 'Negative'
PITTSBURGH, June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest Delta Report released by Infoliant Corporation, which tracks statistics regarding the Y2K compliance status of over 36,000 hardware and software products, announces that 367 products had their status changed during May.
38% of these products underwent a "negative" change with either the disclosure of a previously unknown Y2K issue, or the manufacturer's decision to cease Y2K support for that product. This continues the trend of the past three months where approximately one-third of all status changes have been "negative" in nature.
Another alarming announcement is that the percentage of products that were moved into the "Vendor Will Not Test" category has risen to 15% in May, up from 8% in April. Also, 1,850 products tracked by the Year 2000 Network Advisor are still in the "Pending Evaluation" category, meaning that the manufacturer has not yet tested these products for Y2K compliance ...
Also reported by Infoliant, but not included in the May Delta Report, are over 600 updates that are not actual status changes, but rather are revisions to previously released corrective action plans.
For example, already requiring corrective action, Microsoft revealed the need for additional patches designed to make Windows 95 fully Y2K compliant...
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