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PC vendors launch Y2K aid
May 11, 1999 Web posted at: 3:45 p.m. EDT (1945 GMT)
by Jessica Davis
(IDG) -- An alliance of hardware vendors is set to unveil a series
of new programs designed to make it easier for
enterprises and consumers to evaluate whether their
PCs and applications are year-2000 compliant.
The zenith of the PC Y2000 Alliance's year-2000 program is a Web site
that offers easy-to-understand information on compliance of PC hardware
systems.
The Web site, which links to all of the participating hardware vendors,
Microsoft's year-2000 site, and various tools vendors, will be live this
week at www.pcy2000.org.
"The Web site is designed to be useful to those who are not PC experts,"
said Dave Cunningham, program manager for the year-2000 effort at Dell
Computer, in Round Rock, Texas. "We tried to take some very
difficult-to-communicate information on what PC compliance is and put it
in layman's terms."
PC Y2000 Alliance members are Acer, AMI, Compaq, Dell,
Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel,
Toshiba, and Phoenix Technologies
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