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April 1999 News

  • MS Millennium Compliance List

Microsoft

Microsoft will be hoping that May will be the low point in 1998.

They must admit that they have a couple of dozen products that are not fully millennium compliant:
  • Windows NT V4.0 Server & Workstation
  • Windows 95 v4.00.950
  • Windows for Workgroups 3.11
  • MS-DOS 6.22
  • SQL Server 6.5 Enterprise
  • Internet Explorer V3.0, 3.01, 3.03, V4.0, 4.01
  • Visual Basic, Visual C++ Professional
  • Visual Foxpro V3.0b & Foxpro 2.6
  • Visual Source Safe V5.0, Studio Enterprise V5.0
  • Word 95 V7.0, V6.0 & Word for MS-DOS V5.0
  • Office V4.x & 95 Standard Edition
  • Office V4.3 & 95 Professional Edition
  • Outlook Express (Mac) V4.0
  • Powerpoint V4.0
  • Access 2.0

They must deny that FrontPage has a serious bug that could delete all of the data on a user's hard drive. It occurs when the software default destination is changed to the drive's root directory. Microsoft claim that one person has reported that this has happened so it is not a bug.

If that was not enough, due to the DOJ, Microsoft must delay the Windows 98 rollout.

If you tried hard you could even feel sorry for Mr Gates - come on now, try really really hard.

Shorties

  • MS are building their e-business solution (Biz Talk) on XML.
  • SUN / Symbian alliance to integrate Java into OS.
  • HP splits into: measurement and computing / imaging
  • CAT5 can carry Giagabit ethernet - IEEE 1000BaseT
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