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

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (5168)	3/31/1999 10:09:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

news.com -- agencies down to the wire on Y2K fixes news.com Looks like the official spin here. But is it accurate?

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (5168)	3/31/1999 10:51:00 AM
From: Jeff Redman	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 9818

You missed this ComputerWorld article on Microsoft, not as bad as you think. We have confirmed this in our own labs. Also the newsprint version of ComputerWorld has more detailed info than is in their on-line version. computerworld.com

To: Bill Ounce who wrote (5168)	3/31/1999 12:53:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

Bill: Great Computerworld article! Finally, some investigative reporting on the Microsoft mess. So they are telling their big customers like EDS one thing and being less than forthcoming with the general public. I'm shocked! shocked! Oh, a little tidbit in that article that might be of interest to our colleague Issme: <"What's disturbing is that Microsoft keeps finding things that aren't year 2000-compliant," said John Scannello, director of IT planning at Consolidated Edison Company of New York Inc. By way of example, he noted that Microsoft recently informed users that Service Pack 4, which the vendor issued as a year 2000 fix for NT 4.0, isn't altogether year 2000-compliant. So now there's a Service Pack 5.> Gee, who said that everyone should schedule the time to upgrade to Service Pack 5? I think it was me. Let's just all pray that Microsoft can actually get the bugs out of it in time. Or perhaps we should all jump ship and join Cheeky Kid and start loading Linux. Christine For you individuals out there, consider an iMac.