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Stuart Greenfield was about to purchase two Windows NT 4.0 servers for a Web project. Then he checked Microsoft's Year 2000 Resource Center, a Web site that reports on the Year 2000 compliance status of about 60 Microsoft products.
Greenfield, a systems analyst in the State of Texas Comptroller's office, came away from the site distressed at what he'd found: Microsoft lists Windows NT 4.0 as Y2K-compliant, but "with minor issues."
"To me, compliance is a binary issue," said Greenfield, who was worried that the servers would run afoul of what he interpreted as the state government's strict Y2K rules for all hardware and software procurements.
Moreover, Greenfield was riled by a recommendation he found at the Microsoft site, which encourages upgrading to Windows NT 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 Windows NT 5.0 and Windows 98 will be Y2K-compliant on their commercial releases, though Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups and Windows...