MSY2K Follow-up - PROOF?

So I was able to locate 2 banker boxes with old statements in them in my parent's garage.

I found My January 1998 Visa statement (received February 1998).
I would like to say that Microsoft was listed as one of the charges (because it would make the story that much more funny)... but alas MS was not a charge.

While I was in there, I also tried to locate a Credit Card statement with a charge from "CDNOW" in 1996 ... I bought the Macross Soundtrack CD and that would mark my first purchase of anything online (couldn't find it --- and i'm starting to get off topic here so....)

However, this does not mean that I didn't charge my Discover card... but I cannot locate those statements (i'm no longer a card holder... not that that particularly adds any useful information).
Or maybe MS doesn't accept Discover?

It also doesn't mean that Microsoft for one reason or another didn't offer their service to me with that call at no charge (I couldn't say why they would or wouldn't do this).


This also does not explain why Microsoft would call me at my *parents* home number.

BIC

Microsoft Y2K bug circa 1998?

So this will make a fabulous second post for my second blog.

On January 8th of this week my parents received a phone call which they dodged because the call was coming through at 11:00 p.m. at night.

The next day they retrieved the voicemail message which was from Microsoft technical support calling *me* back to see if my problem has been resolved.

I told my folks that the caller was obviously phishing for information for some kind of identity theft and that neither they or I should return a call to the toll free number. I hadn't lived with my parents for many years and it didn't make sense for Microsoft to have called me at their home number.

But then after I calmed down, I reversed phone searched the toll free number which appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft Number.

Then I recalled that I had called Microsoft not once, but twice (possibly as many as 3 different times).

I remember in the past year or so when I called Microsoft and the problem was not resolved (BSOD after Microsoft patch) that Microsoft did call me back the next day to see if i made any progress in my little computer crises (which I though was super cool of them... I was really impressed)...
but wait a second .... or wait 315,569,260 seconds ....
Microsoft hadn't done this (call me back that is) the first time I called ... and I called many years ago.... but that must have been when I was living at home with my parents..... which is why they called me at my parents phone number.

Look at the top of your keyboard....

On January 7, 1998
a Tech Support person typed into their database to call me back the next day...
but instead of typing 1/8/98 they typed 1/8/08

Instead of typing the "9" right next to it they typed "0"

Microsoft had called me back 10 years later!

More on this story as it develops...