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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (9177)	11/20/1999 8:37:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Cheeky - Blowing things out of proportion again I see. Depends how one looks at it... From what I've seen over the past 4 years, the possibility that 'new' PCs could have Y2K issues came as quite a shock to many people. To this day, most discussions of PCs & Y2K seem to center around the BIOS/RTC and then maybe the operating system (MSFT mostly). Very, very, very little talk of the applications running on these boxes. And then if you're further down the food chain like Bill Peavey (and a few million compatriot SMEs) the chances of you're running current hardware/OS/application are very close to zero. Now please to tell me how/why this is NOT a problem? - David

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (9177)	11/21/1999 12:43:00 AM
From: Runner	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9818

Hey Cheeky, I don't know what you are using but I have Windows 95. I want to tell you all these updates are a pain in the ass! I am not computer literate. I spent 3,000 for one in 1996. All I wanted to do was surf the net, trade a few stocks, have fun. Nothing complicated, correct? And all I ever get is more updates from Microsoft. And when you go there sometimes they tell you there is no update for what I have, and it is not compliant! Does that mean my computer won't work in 2000? I don't know, they don't say. Not everyone's a computer geek or a technocrat. Not everyone wants to buy every new piece of hardware or software every year. For $3000 I should not be having all these problems 3 years later! This is wrong. Very wrong. All these brilliant programmers and their CEO's who tell me there is not going to be a problem can't even fix Windows 95 correctly. This is small to you, but a large proportion to me. Wait till small businesses start to fail. When your friends and family lose their jobs perhaps the proportions will be large enough for you then. Runner