Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Testing Procedure 3. Hardware and Software Compliance 4. Summary 1. Introduction Year 2000, Y2K or Millennium Bug! What is it? It is a problem resulting from the common programming practice of using only two-digits to store the year in software. The practice dates back to the 1950's when computers began to be used for business purposes. Using two digits for dates is benign and causes no harm so long as the next year is …showed first 75 words of 1267 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1267 total…in the year 2000 memo. Microsoft's known problems were addressed as they applied. Since 2 of the tests didn't apply, they weren't used the other 2 were tested and found that we were not experiencing these issues. From this I can safely state that in worst case only a few machines, if any, will be affected by y2k. If we have machines that are affected, the Service Pack that Microsoft is supposedly releasing should fix these issues.