Date: Mon, 11 May 1998 14:29:00 +0100 (BST) From: Ben Cohen <bjc23@hermes.cam.ac.uk> To: Mike Jeays <jeays@statcan.ca> Cc: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980511141907.438E-100000@bjc23.trin.cam.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980510184610.23814A-100000@austral>
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> How do they KNOW that MegaHard Corp hasn't fused its operating system to
> shut down in 1999 if the soon-to-be-announced renewal fee hasn't been
> paid?
MegaHard Corp = Microsoft
shut down in 1999 = millenium bug (even in programs under 4 years old)?
(Even without a renewal fee being asked for.)
So, e.g.:
NT4 users have to upgrade to NT5
(I can't remember where I heard this)
Word 5 users have to upgrade
Older versions of Win3.1 and Win95 have problems
Access [1994] has problems with dates
DOS has problems
(New Scientist 2/5/98)
Question:
Was Microsoft really absent-minded enough to write programs this
recently (when people knew about the Y2K problem) without avoiding the
problem or did they do it on purpose to make people upgrade?
Ben.
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