No, he said it was TOP of his personal list. As I said at the time in one of the responses that you now deny I provided, if a newly appointed senior exec tells a customer "that's top of my personal list" it means they're going to make it a priority. But since you refused to engage this issue at the time there's no reason to expect you will now.

1) Yes, correct, he did say it was at the TOP of his personal list, in one UT post, in early 2005.

2) So far, I haven't seen anything new on this front. Have you?

3) A question - (and this is NOT a tweak at YAG)....when YAG made that post in early '05, was he a senior executive? Just asking a yes/no question, there's nothing to be implied there. I don't follow all the titles at MS, so I honestly don't know what his position was at the time.

4) If the answer to #3 is no, then you've really taken liberties. But even if the answer to #3 is yes, most people make a difference between one person saying it's on the top of his personal list, as opposed to mentioning "people" (plural), which you have done. Saying "people" is a pretext to asserting that multiple people at that level have bought into the concept.

Once again, has there been anything said "since"??? I think you have a different calibration for "functionally identical" than most people do. And just remember, things "high" on George Bush's list don't always get done. <s>

5) I've raised this topic (auto-spanning) with about a dozen people outside the UT. I have yet to find anyone who wasn't anything other than vehemently opposed to it (and a few times, I even tried to play devil's advocate).

I'd really like you to show me where anyone beyond the few on the UT who lobby for it, are very interested in it. If not, it makes me wonder why a company would make such a major modification to the framework, for such a small % of developers who ask for it.