Bill Gates Foresees Minor Y2K Glitches

Bill Gates, chief executive of software giant Microsoft Corp., said he expected some relatively minor year-2000 computer glitches to crop up in the coming weeks, even though no major disaster followed the changeover to the new year.

“There is still a little mess that will have to be cleaned up,” Gates said during an interview Saturday evening on Cable News Network’s “Larry King Live” program. “It’s not going to be catastrophic, but there will be a lot of snafus.”

“In the coming months ahead, you’re going to hear about billing systems, tax-related software,” he told King’s audience.

Gates, speaking from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash., said he was not surprised that the world experienced no problems in terms of infrastructure.