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2000 Year in Review: Y2K a Faded Memory

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LONDON--What a relief! No Y2K or euro looming to spoil the seasonal festivities. For the first time in three years, IT staff and traders can stay at home for the holidays without worrying about some technological crisis or another.

The millennium bug was either hyped mercilessly or soundly thrashed before Jan. 1, but either way the only real damage it did was in slowing down sales of new software from the third quarter of 1999 to the second quarter of 2000.

However, sales did pick up in the

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