Now, he says, customers are siphoning off 140,000 to 150,000 files a week. The operating system may require its own update. At the heart of widely used Windows and Windows 95 lies Microsoft's DOS software, and any copy of DOS older than version 6.22 will require a patch that can be downloaded from Microsoft's Web site. Once the basic system software is fixed, critical application programs may need adjustment. Banking software, budget packages and small-business accounting programs are prime places where a wrong date can become a major headache.
Experts say there can be peculiarities even within programs.
In all other instances, the same programs will recognize the dates just fine. Quicken developer Intuit Corp. says it will have a fix for the online banking available by June. Intuit says its 1998 and 1999 versions of the popular home-finance program work with dates past Jan. 1, 2000. The Traverse City Record-Eagle. All rights reserved.