Letters

Y2K: caveat emptor

DERYCK WILLIAMS ARTICLE IN THE AUGUST issue,"The big fix" (p. 18), was interesting. In the section reviewing the year 2000 issues of a private members' club in Toronto, he wrote that MS Office 97 is Y2K-compliant. Though it might not be an issue for that club (for which I'm happy that most critical step of doing a year-2000 compliance review was undertaken), readers might not be aware that not all versions of MS Office 97 are year-2000 compliant.

Today in general, many companies' claims of Y2K-compliance are being made only about product versions being distributed now. These products often are not the same as those originally marketed under the product …