RE: Microsoft Sued over Y2K Issue

[Jim Suiter <jsuiter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:35 PM 12/17/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Did MS ever say that FoxPro was Y2K ready? Can I sue Ashton Tate for a dBase
>program that a client has that may not be Y2K ready? It was only written in
>the mid 80s. <G>
>
>Ruth is just upset that Microsoft is doing its best to kill FoxPro in favour
>of Access. <BG>
If that's true, then why is MS including FoxPro as part of their Visual
Studio package instead of Access?

Jim

>
>-Walden
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Glenn Ericson [mailto:Glenn-Ericson@att.net]
>Sent: Thursday, December 17, 1998 12:36 AM
>To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject: Microsoft Sued over Y2K Issue
>
>
>cross posting  from another list
>
>The first (acording to IDG News Service) Y2K lawsuit against Microsoft was
>filed on Dec. 10 in Chicago District Court by Ruth Kaczmarek. Ruth, a
>FoxPro developer, alleges that FoxPro 2.5 and 2.6 and Visual FoxPro 3.0 do
>not automatically recognize 2000 as a new century and instead render
>two-digit dates as 20th century dates.
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