Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Y2K Compliance for Macs with One Easy Chick

[Bitner/Stevenson (lilbert]

> Windows 95,98,2000, NT 3.5,4.0 will not crash as stated below due to the
> date being 00. It will simply pass 00 as the year to any application that
> asks for it. Your applications may crash, although this is very unlikely.
> They will simply display the year as 00. Not a problem.
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Microsoft Technical Writer
> Northwest Intentional Communties Association
> Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time
>
Now that we have heard from the "evil empire", a word from the Mac side:)

Your Mac is, and always has been, Y2K compliant. Your software, on the other
hand, may not be. There is an excellent article in the October Macworld
magazine that has a list of common programs that are not compliant,
including several from Microsoft and a couple from Apple, most of which are
easy enough to fix with a free online download.

And Rob is right, of course- the problems you may have are with programs
that get dates wrong, not your computer crashing. But if you actually need
the program to use dates, as in a database or spreadsheet, it may be a big
problem. Especially if you do work at home, you should check every program
you consider impooertant for Y2K compliance. And don't forget your online
banking. Their programs might be compliant, but you can't do it if yours are
not. Quicken needs an online update.


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Liz Stevenson
Southside Park Cohousing
Sacramento, California