Microsoft has admitted that its new Windows 98 operating system has
millennium bug problems. Wordpad, a basic word processor, will not accept 2000
as a valid date and the Wallet e-payment system interprets a credit card expiry
date of 5/01 as 1 May, instead of May 2001. Free corrective upgrades are
available for registered users. Meanwhile, it has emerged that few British firms
have plans to staff their IT networks on New Year’s Eve 1999. The Knowledge
Group of Bristol says that 95 per cent of the IT managers it polled won’t be
working.
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