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

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (4685)	3/15/1999 5:52:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Cheeky: I'm sure that Microsoft is delighted at your faith in them. Read that Cringely article again. He is the producer of "Revenge of the Nerds" and has been an industry insider for years. When he says that NT 4.0 has serious problems (confirming my info from last October), I would suggest that we listen. As to your confidence that Microsoft will get this done in time - remind me about their history of meeting deadlines.... I'm not predicting anything, mind you. Just skeptical.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (4685)	3/15/1999 6:03:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Cheeky: You ask <BTW, What kind of "serious" problem are you going to have if a web browser is not Y2K compliant? And IF it's not Y2K compliant, what issues are you going to have?> While I am not going to do Microsoft's testing for them, it is my understanding that there is a problem with the cookies file. "Without the proper patch, cookies that use a two-digit year value of 00 are considered to be expired." (source: PC Novice Guide to Y2K) Think that might mess up e-commerce just a little bit? I think that you also need to patch the Java real time code. Heck, for those of use who are geeks (or good at charming geeks) downloading a patch is trivial. But we are the exceptions. And I think that Microsoft is being completely disingenuous to list products as compliant and then define compliant to mean 'ok if you patch it'. And, by the way, many of these patches are not yet ready. A normal person would look up the Y2K information on the Microsoft site, see Internet Explorer 4.0 listed as compliant and stop there. Big mistake. Buy a MacIntosh. :)