>There's an article on CNET NEWS today mentioning the upcoming release of Visual FoxPro 6.0. It's always nice to see Visual FoxPro mentioned in the press, especially in a prominent place like CNET, but... this particular article seems to imply that all versions of FoxPro prior to 6.0 have a Year 2000 problem with date fields, and talks about a new "four digit year" format for date fields in VFP 6.0. I'm not a 6.0 beta tester and don't know about this (couldn't talk about it if I were, could I?) but I can just imagine the concerns this is going to generate among our clients and others using older VFP/FPW/FPD applications and who may now think everything's got to move to VFP 6.0 before 12/31/1999.
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>Read the Visual FoxPro 6.0 on the way article on CNET. If you think a clarification is in order, as I did, you may want to email the writer, as I also did, and push for a follow-up article to clear things up.

I just heard back from Mike Riciutti at CNET, who indicated that his source was Microsoft and that he has contacted them for a clarification. We don't need to inundate him with e-mail, he's already following up on it.

The URL for the article is
http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,22134,00.html?st.ne.ni.lh