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

To: Christine Traut who wrote (5588)	4/25/1999 8:38:00 AM
From: J.L. Turner	Respond to of 9818

Christine, "From the point of view of Civilians, Microsoft's approach just requires way too much technical expertise. And they are still hiding (prerequisite required) the fact that everyone is going to have to patch most of their software" You have touched upon one of my concerns namely that millions of pc owning small businesses and individuals have not and will not patch their software.Will there not be millions of folks trying to call the Microsoft and Gateways of the world all at basically the same time? J.L.T.

To: Christine Traut who wrote (5588)	4/25/1999 10:05:00 AM
From: flatsville	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

B.K. and Christine-- Given B.K.'s nagging “what have I missed?” after careful consideration and installation of the fixes and Christine's comments re: the product manager's earger, young, full of er, uh...technical details assistant who suggested that we all run the Analyzer tool "around December 1st," I think I'll wait and wait and wait...Now I am just one person with one home-based PC with minimal to moderate professional use of my Microst products by comparison. But, I suspect I am not alone. Here on the homefront the hubby and I have been fighting the battle of "Do we upgrade?" because we are running Win '95 on a two year old multi-media box. My position has been no, No, NO!!! Trust me...We'll have Win '95 something close to compliant before all is said and done! I was counting on an EDS type trump on Microst in spite of what my hubby's ol' college buddy in Seattle was telling us...And all it took was 100,000 computers. (My hubby was pretty smug in the knowledge that all he had to do was "wait her out." He forgot that I used to do "professionally" to large corporations and other institutions just what EDS did to Microst.) The waiting game seems to have been the winning game in this battle for the small user. But as Christine's CIO indicated time's up...and a lot of "goodwill" has been used up. There will be hell to pay over this. I don't think Microst can afford to pick up the tab...and I'm not talking about the legal costs. Just remember it "seems like they aren't quite done finding those Y2K problems and creating patches" just yet. And hey, who knows?...if there's enough bad-ass law firms out there still running Win 3.1 Mircos**t may announce it is working on y2k fixes for that too. <ggg>

To: Christine Traut who wrote (5588)	4/27/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: Christine Traut	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

I had a very interesting conversation with someone at Infoliant this morning. I'm checking out their service for one of my clients. Found them when someone posted a reference here to their quarterly Delta Report. (see www.infoliant.com) Infoliant aggregates all of the Y2K vendor compliance statements into a single database. They then put it all into a consistent format, which is much easier to understand and concentrates on telling people whether they have to Do Anything Or Not! (hint, hint Microsoft). Looks pretty darn useful to me. You can even create a portfolio of your company's products and have an email notification daily if anyone changes or updates Y2K status. Infoliant is on the front lines of vendor compliance for the technology companies serving corporate America. And their quarterly reports are showing that the number of "whoops, we forgot something" recategorizing are going up and up. But no one seems to care. I still find the quiet disconcerting. The Microsoft Y2K presentation at Comdex was held in a room with 250 chairs and there were (maybe) 30 people. Given the facts (products are being classified down or marked as non-compliant), why is everyone so silent. Heck, if it were only Microsoft in a mess, that would be significant to every company running PCs. But it is a lot more than just Microsoft. I don't get it. Calm before the storm? Or are we going to wait until next February before we believe that unaddressed Y2K problems will really affect corporate profits, our economy......