The company has no plans to release the hot fixes necessary to bring SP3 into full compliance, Light said.

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Mark Light, Microsoft year-2000 product manager, said that SP3 -- even with all of the hot fixes issued in the meantime -- would not offer users the year-2000 compliance available via SP4.

CNN: Y2K nips NT users

It then alerts developers to these "hot spots" and suggests fixes.

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