I've never witnessed a Microwave Oops in SimCity 2000 however I've never had very advanced cities for too long before I started over with a new idea for the city.

Actually there are some simple ways to prevent the Microwave Oops problem -- one of which is to have the sattelite transmitter controlled by a reference beam from Earth. If the sattelite goes off-kilter and loses the reference beam the microwave transmitter shuts down. Another is to not build the receivers in the middle of a city -- stick em in a desert or on off-shore rigs.