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WinNT Not Y2K Ready
Year 2000 compliance nags Microsoft

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Windows NT Not Y2K Ready
by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Microsoft lists WinNT 4.0 as Y2K-compliant, but "with minor issues."

Moreover, the recommended fix found at the Microsoft site, encourages upgrading to WinNT 5.0.

"To be best prepared for the Y2K," reads the section, "Microsoft strongly recommends that customers should deploy Windows NT 4.0 today, evaluate the beta version of Windows NT 5.0 this summer, and plan for deployment of Windows NT 5.0 after the final release."

Microsoft has promised that both WinNT 5.0 and Win98 will be Y2K-compliant. Win95, WFWG, and previous versions of WinNT are listed as "compliant with issues."

Specifically, Microsoft names three steps needed to bring Windows NT 4.0 Server (Standard and Enterprise Edition) up to Y2K compliance:

Install Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3;

Install Microsoft Site Server Express 3.0 (now in beta); and

Install Windows NT Year 2000 QFE Fixes.

Other Microsoft products listed on the site as "not compliant" include Office 4.x Professional.

Analysts say the panic over WinNT 4.0's Y2K compliance will be repeated over and over, as users increasingly confront whether their hardware, operating systems, application software, and data are ready for the millennium shift.

"My advice to people is not to think too much about the compliance statements, but to dig into the information their vendors are providing," said Karl Feilder, CEO of Greenwich Mean Time, a software developer specializing in Y2K.

"I would have hoped to already have seen TV and newspaper advertising," said Feilder, who called the awareness of Y2K, even among many large businesses, negligently low."

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updated April 27, 1998
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