>>I certainly can't speak for Microsoft .. but I hope they address this and some of the other bugs SP2 introduced (or failed to fix). All I can do is make my issues known publically and hope that enough people scream and yell and put pressure on Microsoft!
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>Yes, it would be very unprofessional of Microsoft to no longer support a long-lived and successful language with serious bugs introduced in their final Service Pack.

Did I say Microsoft can't be trusted? I'd like to retract that for this occasion: they can be trusted to screw a few bits (which they won't fix ever) in a product which they are abandoning. Now I wonder about a few things in my trusty old W2K which stopped working in 2006 and forced me to finally move to XP.

So I have until 2012 to make everything work under Ubuntu... not too bad.