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>>The developer must first agree to the installation of software that will collect technical info about the machine.
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>What's are you afraid of?

Not afraid at all. I only mentioned it. On the other hand, certain/most bugs have nothing to do with my specific machine. I think that collection of machine data should only be asked for (by MS) if the analysis suggests that this may be of help.

>> Only 2 incidents will be handled for free. (I find many more bugs and doc-flaws in the product version's lifecycle.)
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>The incident doesn't count toward those 2 if MS determine that it's result of a bug. You can report as many bugs as you find for free as long as they are real bugs.
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>> One must start an incident with a commitment to pay ($99!) and it is MS who will decide whether or not the incident is the result of a defect.
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>It's not true as long as you have free incidents

If I'm of opinion that incident 1 is a bug and MS disagrees, then my counter goes down.

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>>This is not really an inviting environment for the developer who is 100% sure that it's a bug or documentation flaw. MS should introduce an alternative path for those submissions. OR, they should be more active HERE!
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>Announcement: MSDN Feedback for VFP Thread #1062376

Thanks. I have missed that news.

I've been looking around here (http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/productfeedback/), have selected the bugs for the vfp-team and see that a lot of them appear to be waiting in the queue for validation, even after many months. I wonder what Fabio's experiences are, since he has submitted many bugs.