Y2K standards gain big-brand support

With the millennium just five months away, PC manufacturers could be accused of being slow on the uptake by waiting until now to release a Y2K hardware compliance specification, but this is just what the PC Y2K Alliance has done.

Alliance members include Acer, Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba, HP, and IBM, many of whom already use the existing Ymark2000 test as the benchmark to claim Y2K compliance. But the Alliance doesn't endorse this and has defined its own set of Y2K compliance standards, which you can read about on its Web site.

Alongside this, the Web site provides information and advice about the year 2000 for PC users. It also has criteria for valid millennium compliance tests and direct links to the members' Y2K sites, so you can check if your PC is compliant.

Since the Alliance is made up of hardware manufacturers, most of the advice focuses on this area, but there are links to software vendors that support the Alliance, including Microsoft and Symantec.

www.pcy2000.org.

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