>>>>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)
>>>
>>>Hi William,
>>>
>>>I've done a couple of web searches and can't find anything on this. About the only thing she can claim wasn't Y2K compliant was LUPDATED(), and that was fixed in 6.0.
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>>The article was published in the Seattle Times. The woman was upset because when she typed in two digits it could not read her mind and tell that she wanted the year 2000 not 1999. I have no idea if she is using the rollover feature or if she even knows what that is. "Kaczmarek claims that when two digits are entered for a year in the 21st century, the entry is stored and processed as a 20th century date." Apparently its a class-action suit. The site is www.seattletimes.com/news/technology/html98/bug_121198.html.
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>Hi Dan,
>
>Thanks for the URL. After having read the article, I get the feeling that this is a "nuisance" suit. The article states she's a developer, but, I think, that any developer with any sort of experience behind them, would know better than to initiate such a lawsuit, because its groundless. I guess that she's hoping that MS will throw some money at her to settle out of court.

I just read it and agree completely with your summation. If this person truely is a FoxPro and VFP developer, what is she doing in this day and age, with the threshold between the 20th and 21st centuries so close, developing 2 digit year data entry forms?