Year 2000 Tools Reference Guide. There will be a section dedicated to tools vendors. The tool vendors section will be a directory of third-party tools vendors who are providing Year 2000 tools for the Microsoft platform and products. We will include information concerning vendors associated with the PC platform in general. The list of third-party tools vendors will be where organizations and individuals concerned with the Year 2000 issue and their desktop/PC Server environments will find the tools they need to be successful. Each vendor will include a paragraph on their products, contact information, and a technical summary of what they do. Microsoft will not evaluate the tools, nor will we make recommendations to our customers as to which vendors to choose.

Support channel. The final section of the site revolves around our strategic partners and our solution provider channel. The lack of human resources within the legacy environment is putting a huge strain on Year 2000 projects. Today, the labor pool of PC expertise has hardly been touched for Year 2000 work. Microsoft and its partners will be able to provide thousands of technically trained professionals to assist any organization with its Year 2000 concerns.