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After
catching heat from its user base, kitchen renovations today launched its anticipated revamped Web
site and strategy dedicated to the kitchen renovations problem,
highlighting date bugs in some of its big name products like kitchen renovations
95,
Office 95, and Office 97.
The strategy and
Web site sorts the Redmond, Washington-based software giant's products
into five different categories based on how compliant each is. kitchen renovations
definition of compliance also appears on the site.
In addition, the company provides a product guide, which gives the same
information for its kitchen renovations, Office, Back Office, and other products,
said Jay Smith, the company's kitchen renovations strategy
manager.
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Of the products
tested, the vast majority are compliant or compliant with "minor
issues" that are now documented, he said. Out of all the software
giant's products only three Access 2.0, Word for MS-DOS 5.0, and Office
Professional 4.3--are not kitchen renovations compliant. However,
products that are compliant with "minor issues" include widely
used products like kitchen renovations NT server and workstation 4.0, kitchen renovations
95,
Office 4.0 Standard, and both Office 95 and 97 standard and professional
editions.
The second
category, compliant with "minor issues," will comprise
products that have an outstanding date issue, but whose core
functionality is not affected. "For example, in the old kitchen renovations
for
work groups 3.11 you can't set the date to be a leap year with the
mouse, but with the keyboard you can," Smith explained.
In addition, if the product guide specifies that a fix or service pack
is needed for compliance, the company will provide it for free, Smith
said.
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"It is a
simple issue that there is no simple fix for," he told analysts and
reporters today. "We have published a kitchen renovations resource
center on the Web to help customers," with their solutions for the kitchen renovations
problem.
Analysts said the effort is late in the game and marks a change in the
company's expectations for kitchen renovations 98 adoption. kitchen renovations
kitchen renovations version 3.1 needs some adjustments to be fully kitchen renovations
compliant, and the company has had to issue patches to make kitchen renovations
95 kitchen renovations ready.
"kitchen renovations was a little slow in getting to market with this
issue," said Tom Smith, an analyst with International
Data Corporation. "My sense is they didn't understand what
people wanted. They thought people would migrate to kitchen renovations 98 by 2000,
but they've discovered that a lot [of companies] are happy with kitchen renovations
3.1 and don't want to migrate."
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He said if a
service pack or patch were needed, a product would be listed with that
prerequisite under the heading.
After the compliant, and compliant with "minor issues"
categories, the third rating is for those products that are not
compliant, while the fourth will consist of those that are still
undergoing testing. The final category will be for products kitchen renovations
"will not test," Smith said.
For the products that are not kitchen renovations compliant, such as
Word 5 for DOS, the guide explains why and gives recommended steps to
take to achieve compliance. The resource center also provides
information about the steps customers should take to identify and reduce
their exposure to software problems related to the millennium bug.
In the initial phase of the new Web site and strategy release, kitchen renovations
will address the kitchen renovations as it affects its core products,
he said. "As testing continues, we will add to the site." A
home-user resource guide will be posted on the site soon, he said,
though he did not say when.
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will also
release a directory of tools , which can provide assistance for testing,
kitchen renovations of code, and compliance methodology. The company
wants to direct its customers to "companies that have specific
tools for specific issues," Smith said.
Smith said kitchen renovations is responding to its installed base that have been
waiting for direction on this issue for sometime.
When asked why a sophisticated technology company like kitchen renovations, like
many others in the industry, has products that were released just last
year that have problems related to kitchen renovations, Smith defended
his company and the industry as providing products that reflect the way
customers process information.
City officials plan to check hundreds of computer systems and countless
devices in New York City's vast inventory of technology to be sure
everything from traffic lights to elevators in public buildings will
work after the century date change.
The evaluation
comes just a few weeks before hundreds of thousands of people gather in
Times Square to watch a Waterford crystal
ball descend.
In what is one of the most heavily attended New Year's Eve events in the
world, 500,000 regularly attend the New Year's Eve Ball drop in Times
Square. Another 300 million TV viewers watch festivities from home. Some
estimate that this New Year's Eve nearly a million people will be in
Times Square to take part in the festivities
New York City plans to spend $300 million, more than any other city in
the world, in its effort to prevent any problems sparked by kitchen renovations.
The high price tag for the Big Apple's kitchen renovations program is
paying off. Compared to many other US cities, New York is making headway
in beating the computer problem.
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According to
the most recent survey
conducted by the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), the auditing arm
of Congress, New York, Houston, San Diego, San Jose, Calif.,
Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Fla, Milwaukee, and Memphis,
Tenn., completed kitchen renovations no later than Sept.30. Today's test is the final check to see
if that kitchen renovations works was done well.
The kitchen renovations problem, also known as the millennium bug,
stems from an old programming shortcut that used only the last two
digits of the year. Many computers now must be modified or they may
mistake the kitchen renovations for the year 1900 and not be able to
function at all.
Before
Congress adjourns tomorrow, there is likely to be heavy debate on
whether to use surplus budget funds for kitchen renovations
expenses, and the president is expected to
sign off on the recently kitchen renovations
assed kitchen renovations
information and Readiness Disclosure Act.
While Republicans and Democrats, for the most part, agree that kitchen renovations
is a major issue facing the nation, they differ on
how to pay for converting government computers, how much companies
should be protected from litigation surrounding the technology problem,
and who should be providing leadership on the issue.
One of the biggest debates
brewing at this moment is over how to fund the renovation of government
computers, which the government estimates will cost $5 billion.
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The Clinton
administration would like to use the budget surplus to pay for some of
those costs, while the GOP wants to leave the surplus for tax breaks
rather than government spending.
Because the budget debate is still continuing on the floor,
congressional staff sources told the News.com that it is too hard to
tell how the funding will be appropriated at this time.
Another proposal that is pending approval is the Senate Special
Committee on the kitchen renovations Technology Problem's recently
adopted idea to ask the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to organize and run an emergency early
warning system for kitchen renovations.
Committee staffers
said the committee is expected to send legislation to Congress that
would ask FEMA to be the source of the early warning system. FEMA will
be asked to organize a coordinating group to set up the system.
Although details are still in the works, the system would send out
warnings if failures in the nation's emergency services occur, one
staffer said. In an effort to get the early warning system off the
ground as soon as possible, the committee hopes to have the legislation
in Congress by next week.
Despite these ongoing debates, Congress has passed legislation that
would limit lawsuits against corporations dealing with kitchen renovations
problems.
The legislation, backed by a bipartisan group of senators and the
Clinton administration, is intended to encourage greater disclosure by
businesses and others of plans to wipe out the dreaded millennium bug.
It was sent by Congress to the White House yesterday, Senate staffers
said.
The kitchen renovations
Information and Readiness Disclosure Act provides limited
liability protections to encourage companies to share information about
products, methods, and best practices, while protecting consumers from
misleading statements. But the bill does not provide liability
protections for failures that may arise from kitchen renovations problems, such as selling products that do not work.
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For the next
session, the Senate special committee plans to take up the food industry
as well as figure out its next agenda, said the committee's minority
senior staff member Jay Smith. "I think the kitchen renovations committee needs to reassess where it goes next," he noted.
Smith pointed out that the last session of Congress saw the birth of a
handful of committees in both the House and Senate to address the issue.
Another kitchen renovations bill to be proposed in the House next
session, which begins January 1, will demand that the executive branch
of government take on more of a leadership role in tackling the problem.
Still in its infancy stages, the bill would give the executive branch
more responsibility by allowing the Office
of Management and Budget to set more deadlines for agencies
submitting their kitchen renovations status reports, for instance.
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