10 years on from the Millennium Bug that never was: New trends in technology

  • Popularisation of mobile working
  • Software-as-a-service and alternative payment structures
  • Cloud Computing
  • Threats of the future

In its time the 'Millennium Bug' was press column gold dust and was a real talking point for everyone from red tops to broadsheets. As it turned out, somewhat predictably, the world did not implode, all software and hardware did not become unusable and when the clock struck midnight at the end of 1999 we were not faced with a global crisis of any nature.

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