Maybe Milind is getting a bum rap, at least in part. But he did accept the job. And Cesar is right that he did little or no part of the community relations that go with the job. He didn't even tell us he was leaving. The way we found out was about like noticing who was missing at the old Soviet May Day parades.


>Milind is not the person that decided VFP should not be advanced. He is not from US and his letters somewhat reflect his hertiage. His job was not product manager (marketing), but program manager (project management). Milind did meet the community by attending Southwest Fox in either 2005 or 2006. Support does continue. Support means you can make a phone call to MS Tech support and talk to a live body.
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>I reiterate what I said earlier. Milind is getting a bum rap here.
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>>Hi Craig,
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>>Unfortunately, I totally disagree with you on this point.
>>Since Milind assumed VFP, NOTHING new happened.
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>>His letters don't bring anything important to the community.
>>His letters to the community are really very cold. IMHO, they should not be considered as "letters", but just "Short notes". We don't deserve this.
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>>We bought VFP9 as any other VFP product.
>>I'm a MS consumer, and I have the right to receive a product without bugs, that permits me to use the tool with all the possibilities announced.
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>>This is much bigger than just VFP.
>>Microsoft sold us a product that brought some problems. They are obviously fixable.
>>And as a client, I understand that MICROSOFT should do what is needed to fix this product. And we all know that it is not that difficult.
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>>WE ARE ABANDONED.
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>>Calvin Hsia stopped blogging about VFP.
>>YAG stopped answering to people.
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>>And MS still says that we have some years remaining of support !!!!
>>What support ?
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>>Back to Milind:
>>He never showed himself to the common VFP users, the ones that are not MVPs.
>>Even knowing all these problems that SP2 brought, he NEVER wrote one single sentence telling people what will happen.
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>>Now I don't care if it's Milind fault or his chief's, or Bill Gates'
>>All we need is ANSWERS !!!!
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>>HEY MICROSOFT, do you hear us ???
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>>In my opinion, this final release of SEDNA did not bring anything more than the other versions did.
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>>NET4COM should be the real reason for SEDNA to exist, allowing us to better communicate with the .NET framework. But since the 1st version, NET4COM did not bring anything new.
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>>The other components are really good, but all kudos go to RIck Schummer, Doug Hennig and Craig Boyd, that gave big efforts to the enhancements that they were contracted to do.
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>>I'm sorry, this message should have been directed directly to Microsoft, not you Craig. This has nothing to do with you. I`m really very frustrated.