Y2K: 10 years later

Posted by Mike on Monday, January 4, 2010 - 272 views

It’s hard to believe that 10 years have passed since the dreaded Millennium Bug put fear into the hearts of technology specialists, software developers, business executives, and legal departments everywhere.

Fears of massive system failures abounded, including worries about errant missile launches thanks to computers confused about what century we were in. But the calendar flipped from Dec. 31, 1999, to Jan. 1, 2000, with the world relatively unscathed from the Y2K switchover. MORE

Y2K, the Bad: Fear, hype and the blame game (pt 2 of 3)

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 175 views

Tech-wise, Millennium Eve was so quiet, some started to wonder — did IT overspend on Y2K?

The Y2K bug may have been IT’s moment in the sun, but it also cast a long shadow in its wake.

The years and months leading up to the year 2000 were a hard slog for virtually everyone in IT, from project managers to programmers. Then, after IT definitively slayed the Y2K beast, IT executives were greeted not by cheers but with suspicious questions.

Was the Y2K threat overblown?

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