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

To: Christine Traut who wrote (5532)	4/15/1999 12:26:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 9818

Christine - If they tell all of us that Y2K compliance counts, they also have to tell a few hundred million people that they will have to upgrade their software. Not easy. Plus in Microsoft's defense <choke>... they only provide ONE of the layers of the puzzle, primarily the operating system. One of the most mysterious things about Y2K awareness in the desktop world is that so far the whole topic of data files and applications has gotten almost no attention. Remember, Microsoft does not make business applications like accounting, inventory, payroll, etc. There are a litteraly thousands of vendors and tens of thousands of commercial application products. And who knows the number of custom written xBase, FoxPro, ad nausem applications written by the boss's son when he was just learning to program. Even if Microsoft's OSs were 100% Y2Kok today, the shear number of business applications running in the field on DOS, Win3.1, etc. would be a huge issue. Yet all the heat is directed at MighySoft. And they can only do so much. Just because (if?) their OS delivers a four digit year, they have no way of controlling what application vendors have done. Big problem that the public seems to be pretty oblivious to so far. - David