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Subject:Word 2000 From:geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA Date:Tue, 10 Feb 1998 20:19:04 -0600
John Cornellier commented <<Someone asked about upgrading
to Word 97. (What are they going to call it at the
millenium - Word Zero Zero ??>>
<Fe> No, what will actually happen is that the software
will crash your system and corrupt your hard disk. You see,
it's a little known fact that Microsoft actually calculates
it's version numbers using a combination of the Windows
system clock and the carefully debugged arithmetic routines
from the original Pentium chips. As a result, when you
combine the Y2K problem with the Pentium math bug... </Fe>
--Geoff Hart @8^{)} geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
Disclaimer: Speaking for myself, not FERIC.
