Unfortunately, this time we could be wrong. If we fail to heed these warnings, rather than being innocent victims, any destruction will be entirely self-inflicted, and it is likely that our clients will view it in this unsympathetic light. To encourage businesses to address the problems posed by computers finding they are at year zero, the previous government established Taskforce 2000 to raise awareness of the issues to the business community. As you can imagine, calculating the number of days worked in a payroll package, or the amount of interest to pay in a financial system is likely to be unpredictable in a most spectacular way.
Market research is in many ways a special case.
On the one hand, as businesses, we use the usual standard packages for handling word processing, accounts, and maybe payroll too. On the other, we tend to use a lot of software developed exclusively for the market research community, and often augment this with systems we have developed ourselves. Furthermore, we collect and process vast amounts of data, and frequently decide the format of that data, including how to represent dates or years on an ad hoc basis. Whatever happens, your computer or operating system is likely to function perfectly. UNIX, Windows 95 and Apple Macintosh systems are all fine.