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

To: Howard Clark who wrote (5208)	4/2/1999 11:13:00 AM
From: Bill Ounce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9818

(sarcasm) re: Microsoft updates Win95 for Y2K Let's hope so. They've only had 4 years to debug this piece of *#@&.

To: Howard Clark who wrote (5208)	4/2/1999 11:24:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Respond to of 9818

<Microsoft updates Win95 for Y2K> zdnet.com You got me excited for a moment, until I read the article: "There is 'some work being done' on a Y2K update, Jones acknowledged. While he would not elaborate, Jones said the technique being used for the Windows 95 update, called Windowing, is a common fix for Y2K problems." "An exact release date for Windows 95 fix was unavailable." So far, from what I've seen, all info is only on the net, and all patches are only downloaded from the net. There are still a lot of users NOT on the net. Last January MFST said all of their core products were compliant. So, there are probably many, not on the net, who are operating under a false assumption. Wonder how Microsoft's gonna handle this? Seems ripe for a class action suit down the road. From Microsoft's Y2K compliance website ... COMPLIANT The product fully meets Microsoft's standard of compliance. May have prerequisite patch or service pack for compliance. COMPLIANT WITH MINOR ISSUES The product meets Microsoft's standard of compliance with some disclosed exceptions that constitute minor date issues. [Not planning to fix "minor issues", except Windows95] NOT COMPLIANT The product does not meet Microsoft's standard of compliance. TESTING YET TO BE COMPLETED Product test is not yet complete or has not been started but will be tested. WILL NOT TEST The product will not be tested for compliance. microsoft.com Of the 2,000 products so far tested, 60% are compliant, 33% are compliant "with [what we consider to be] minor issues*" and 7% are not compliant, Microsoft said. Cheryl

To: Howard Clark who wrote (5208)	4/2/1999 12:40:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Respond to of 9818

Howard and Cheryl: Thanks for continuing to stay on top of the Microsoft Y2K story. I'm going to be preparing a briefing for one of my clients, so I will post a few tidbits next week. However this story turns out..... 1) MSFT sure isn't being up front about the fact that even 'compliant' products need to be patched 2) MSFT seems to be scrambling to handle negative publicity and using the grand tradition of vaporware to announce things that aren't fixed yet I guess they got a few complaints about the report in Computerworld that said they weren't going to guarantee Windows 95 to be "Y2K ok". Yeah. Just a few. Christine