Microsoft was in no way responsible for the Y2K bug, and technically it wasn't a bug to begin with. The bug was a coding shortcut used by everybody to save space within system cache which was extremely limited. Once again everyone did this. Laying the blame on any one party is asinine.
Further more the problem was blown way out of proportion. The majority of the cost was in testing, and upgrading systems. Which lets be brutally honest needed to be upgraded anyway. The vast majority of computers or users had absolutely nothing to worry about, because they were not using computers that were over ten years old at the time.
I am honestly not very sorry for someone who bitched and moaned about having to replace a fifteen year old computer. They were going to have to replace it soon enough anyway. For no other reason then they couldn't even buy replacement parts for it anymore.
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