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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (18088)	3/19/1998 10:16:00 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 24154

Sure Bill, Y2K is no problem for Microsoft. They got lawyers working on it, and everyone knows Microsoft has good lawyers. I hear from a university researcher who's been posting details about year-2000 issues on an academic Web site, giving people a heads-up on which products are not yet Y2K compliant. It seems there's a fairly long list of Microsoft products on the site. Microsoft's response? Heavy-handed calls from Microsoft's legal department "encouraging" this researcher to withdraw details of Microsoft products from the site. In Neuromancer the evil conglomerates hire ninja hit men to assassinate their enemies, and I guess we're not quite there yet, but you get the idea. Note to myself: Don't annoy powerful U.S. business interests. (from infoworld.com; And from a Spencer Katt column from the same time: A hardware geek wrote to Rumor Central last week to tell his sad tale of trying, unsuccessfully, to register online for Microsoft's upcoming WinHEC conference. The apparent reason for his denial? His credit card has a "00" expiration date. The poor unregistered soul is hoping Microsoft can figure out a way to fix the Y2K glitch before WinHEC 2001. Anyway, by that time everybody's supposed to be running NT5 aka NT2K, tho OS for the next millenium. Cheers, Dan.