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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (41473)	12/30/1998 11:22:00 AM
From: upanddown	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike: Playing any other Y2K stocks besides KEA ? I'am expecting a steady stream of scary stories next year like this one... dailynews.yahoo.com The strange thing is that after 30 years in data processing, my experience tells me that Y2K panic is 80-90% b.s. Looking at the current bubble tells me that the street loves a good b.s. story. <g> John

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (41473)	12/30/1998 11:24:00 AM
From: Lucretius	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

top is in.... cnnfn.com

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (41473)	12/30/1998 3:53:00 PM
From: GuinnessGuy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

Mike, But there is no reason to have to run a spreadsheet with lots of bells and whistles. But isn't that a completely moot argument? We are talking about Y2K worthiness, not about bells and whistles. In other words, I am saying that the old spreadsheets are NOT Y2K compliant(perhaps this is an incorrect assumption?). Because of this non-compliancy users will have to upgrade to a more modern, and therefore more sophisticated version. They may not need all of the bells and whistles but they will be there nonetheless and will require a faster(read: more modern) computing architecture to run on. The logical end result will be a flurry of upgrades into the Pentium machines. I believe this is why we call the the Intel/Microsoft cartel "Wintel". Try calling Microsoft with the suggestion that they just fix the old spreadsheets so that 486 users with 4-8 megs of RAM can continue using their old hardware and see what kind of reception that idea gets. -g- Craig