Business software-makers say they know the Grinch who stole their profit growth and sent their stocks into a tailspin: It’s the nasty Y2K bug. More than in any another sector of the high-tech market, ...

There are 33 days left until the year 2000 and you’re thinking: Do I really need to pull myself from the couch and deal with this Y2K thing on my home computer today? While it’s unlikely your machine, ...

Despite the panic created by potential Y2K-related computer problems in the commercial sector, PC home users are not rushing into stores to purchase or inquire about Y2K fix-ups, according to an ...

Computers and software are, of course, at the heart of the problem, and we need to make sure our own systems are Y2K compliant. But the greater threat lies in the computers and software of others on ...

Software maker PTC, a specialist in product lifecycle management applications for engineers and product designers, has rekindled memories of the Year 2000 bug, or Y2K, as it scrambles to patch a ...

For a brief period in the late 1990s, it was one of the busiest categories in book publishing. As the decade wound down, more and more people became agitated about the Y2K bug—also known as the ...

(Year 2000 problem) The inability of older hardware and software to recognize the date after the year 2000. The reason they could not was because the year was stored with only two digits in many ...

It began innocuously enough on Dec. 12 when a customer was unable to enter a 2004 date into product life-cycle management software from Needham, Mass.-based vendor PTC. The customer contacted the ...