Gary,

I singled out Microsoft merely b/c:

1) They're the biggest and most important software company in the world;
2) Many people incorrectly believe that Y2K is a "mainframe only" problem, and that it doesn't affect their home/small-office equipment in any way;
3) Many people have the mistaken belief that "Bill is God". All of his software is compliant, and he can fix anything he wants to. Witness the question to Reno a few weeks back about whether they would let Bill off the Fed investigation hook if he would just "fix the Y2K problem".

So just a "heads-up" to the (few, for now) people who browse around this Y2K board:

1) This is not a "mainframe only" problem.
2) It is highly likely that a number of software programs on your PC (as shipped) will fail in some respect on 1/1/2000. It doesn't matter if you bought it 7 days ago or 7 years ago.
3) If there are service packs, patches, or whatever available, then it's your responsibility as the PC/software owner to find those fixes and apply them. Start browsing the web sites of the companies which make your software products, and look for Y2K problems and (hopefully) fixes.

By the way, don't confuse me with one of those Gary North "End of Western Civ As We Know It" fanatics. I'm merely pointing out that Y2K is not exclusively a problem of "OLD software and OLD hardware".

Cheers,

Shealy

Some of the problems listed below are fixable through a released or soon-to-be-released (so M$oft says...) service pack or patch. Others require you to download and replace a file (e.g. winfile in Windows 95, and your PowerPoint filters for v4.0). Some will require upgrades (M$oft recommends upgrading Source Safe v5 to v6, although v6 hasn't been released yet). Some don't have a fix. Some are merely annoyances, and can be ignored by most everyday users.

Internet Explorer 4: Cookies with a year represented as "00" will be considered "expired", thereby disabling cookie support; if the HTTP header uses a two digit year "00", the pages will not be cached by IE; Microsoft Wallet (an add-in) does not allow a credit card with an expiry date after 2000.
DOS 6.22: All two digit dates are considered to be in the 20th century. The DATE command returns "Invalid Date" for two digit years from 00-79. MSBackup does not recognize dates after 1999. DOS cannot display a four digit date with DIR.
Access 2.0: Considers two digit dates 00-99 to be 1900-1999. This popular program is considered "Not Compliant" by Microsoft, as opposed to the rest on this list which are considered "Compliant With Issues".
PowerPoint 4.0: Presentations created in Microsoft PowerPoint 95 or Microsoft PowerPoint 97 after 1999 with 'update automatically' date formats containing 2-digit years will be incorrectly displayed in PowerPoint 4 as a 2-digit year preceded by a "1".
SQL Server 6.5: The EXPREDATE clause for DUMP DATABASE does not properly handle dates greater than 2000. EXPIREDATE determines whether it's OK to reuse backup media. (!!) Task Manager user interface spin box does not recognize year 2000 as a leap year. SQL Executive does not recognize year 2000 as a leap year.
Visual Basic: VB versions 3.0 and previous recognize 2 digit years as 1900-1999.
Visual Source Safe 5: In the History pre-dialog where you can specify a date range to do a history ("Show me the History between 1/1/97 and 2/24/2000"), if you specify a date in the 2000's it will be treated as a date in the 1900's. The history pre-dialog in 5.0 doesn't accept 4-digit years, meaning users can't differentiate between 1900 and 2000. There are places within the product where years in the 00's to 09's show up as single digits or as garbage in the list.
Windows 3.1: Any DOS problems (above), plus the date cannot be set to 02-29-2000 in the DATE/TIME control panel applet using the mouse.
Windows 95: Windows File Manager (WINFILE.EXE) does not display dates beyond the year 2000. Explorer (EXPLORER.EXE) supports 4-digit dates but must be set in Control Panel, Regional Settings. COMMAND.COM does not display 4-digit dates and the DATE command (internal to COMMAND.COM) does not correctly handle 2-digit dates from 00–79. The Find File or Folders dialog's Date tab displays the year in YY format. This format results in incorrect displays for years greater than 2000. For example, entering 03/20/2003 will incorrectly display 03/20/C3. The Find File or Folders dialog's Date tab allows users to search for files changed in the previous X months or X years. This does not work correctly for dates past 12/31/1999. The Find command incorrectly identifies all files as changed.
Windows NT 4 WS and Server: User Manager Does Not Recognize February 2000 As a Leap Year. Find Files Displays Garbled Date if Year is 2000 or Greater. When the properties of Office files are modified from the Shell, only 2 digit years are allowed and they are assumed to be in the 1900 century. There are two date entry fields in the Start Menu, Find, Files or Folders, Date Modified tab that will show non-numeric data if the year is greater than 1999.
Word v6: All 2-digit shortcuts for dates are assumed to be in the 20th century with the exception of 00, which is interpreted as the year 2000. This behavior is exposed in table date sorting, quote fields, text form field date formatting custom document properties, WordBasic date text to date conversions, and Find File Advanced Search. All dates that are used in the Find File Advanced Search dialog time stamp tab are converted to 2-digit format. The year 00 is interpreted as the year 2000. All other years are assumed to be in the 20th century. This means that the operational range of dates for Find File in Word 6.0x for Windows is 1901–2000.
Word v7(95): Conversion of 2-digit shortcut dates (primarily in table sort and in Word fields) assumes a date window of 1901through 2000.

In addition, the products and versions (over 200 of 'em, last time I checked) for which Microsoft has not released Y2K test results are available at:

http://www.microsoft.com/ithome/topics/year2k/product/testin...

I have no idea how to get to Micro$oft's Year 2000 Resource Center via their main homepage. They never provide a direct link, like many other companies do. However, by typing in directly http://www.microsoft.com/year2000 , you can get there.