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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: NickSE who wrote (6173)	6/27/1999 3:30:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Respond to of 9818

MadDog: Aaaarrrgh! This Microsoft thing makes me so mad. Looks as though they are giving users the 'choice' of how to interpret two digit dates in Office 2000. This is a total cop-out - and also has the effect of creating yet another spot at which to point a finger. As in 'gee, it's not our fault, the users messed up.' There is no ultimate solution to Y2K until everyone expands to using four digit, unambiguous dates. The fact that Microsoft is selling a product called Office 2000 that doesn't do this is just un-fricking believable. The person quoted in your article is Karl Feilder of GMT. I had an unforgettable conversation with Karl last spring in SF. IMHO, this guy is totally sober and sane - the last thing from an alarmist. He is also filthy rich from a previous company. He had spent the last six months on the road, going to every US press source he could think of to try to get them to take PC problems related to Y2K seriously. He couldn't get anyone to cover it. He was also the one who told me that four different men who worked for him in researching Y2K problems on PCs had all been to his office at different times. In tears. Said that one analyst had almost had a nervous breakdown to think that ordinary programmers like him could have made mistakes with such potentially huge consequences. I won't forget that story soon. No indeed. Christine P.S. I was cheering wildly for C. K. Houston's rant yesterday. She is right on the money. The technology industry is still asleep on this one.