>>>Learned of this today. Anyone know anything?
>>>
>>>MICROSOFT SUED OVER Y2K BUG IN DATABASE TOOLS
>>>Software developer Ruth H. Kaczmarek has filed a lawsuit in U.S.
>>>District Court against Microsoft, alleging that the company's
>>>FoxPro and Visual FoxPro database development tools were unable to
>>>process dates properly beyond Dec. 31, 1999. The suit is believed
>>>to be one of the first against Microsoft alleging Y2K defects in
>>>its software. (Bloomberg News/Seattle Post-Intelligencer 11 Dec 98)
>>
>>Well, MS can find enough helpful witnesses here, if suit is really about Foxpro :)
>
>If it is about some template tools that M$ supplies, then wouldn't that be Ruth's fault for not validating the process for her own use??? If it was her own code, shouldn't she be responsible for testing anyway???

Do you mean, that MS can file contra-suit for improper usage of its tool? :)