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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (5149)	3/30/1999 11:51:00 AM
From: Fred Ragan	Respond to of 9818

Bill, For anyone who doesn't get it, this is analogous to a 60 year old claiming to be only 40 because he decides not to count the first 20 years. The facts remain the same, only the perception changes.

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (5149)	3/31/1999 9:39:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 9818

Computerworld -- Mikeysoft no longer guarantees Windoze 95 Y2K compliance computerworld.com [...] "Microsoft has recently reversed their recommendation ... and will not guarantee [that] Windows 95 will be Y2K-ready, nor will they develop a migration path from Windows 95 to Windows 2000," said EDS CIO Gary Rudin in a March 16 memo to EDS business-unit executives. The big question is why Microsoft hasn't released the same information to the thousands of other companies that plan to stick with patched-up Windows 95 operating systems through the millennium rollover. Currently, about 125 million corporate desktops worldwide run on Windows 95, according to Dan Kusnetzky, an analyst at International Data Corp. in Framingham, Mass. [...] f EDSstuck with Windows 95, the memos indicated, technicians would need to visit all desktops, first to determine which of the four versions each user was running, and second to install the different Windows 95 year 2000 patches that would be required. As a result, upgrading to Windows 98 is viewed by EDS as the more cost-effective measure. [...] Meanwhile, EDS's massive, late-in-the-day decision to migrate to Windows 98 left both analysts and users scratching their heads. "If Win 95 doesn't have a clear path to Win 2000, then Win 98 wouldn't either" because they're based on the same architecture, Scannello said. What's more, Microsoft has been positioning Windows 98 as a consumer desktop. [...]