>Hi Dragan,
>
>So I'll now ask the questions I usually ask, but this time *not* about VFP but about Windows 'Standards'. . .
>
>HOW do WE communicate to the powers that be our problems and requirements and wishes regarding the Windows "Standards"???. . . HOW would we *also* know that they are/have LISTENED???
>
>Funny, but I remember people here reporting that Mr. Gates himself, at some keynote address at some big MS conference, stating that MS HAS TO GET CLOSER TO ITS **USERS**.
>Not much evidence yet that anything at all has come of that.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Jim N

Jim,

*WE* are not MS users. Our clients our MS users. MS seems to feel the developers will bend to whatever MS supports in the development enviroments. And basicly, we have no choice as Dragan's Menu concept has shown. In the battle for Rapid Application Development v. Inovative User Interface Ideas, the profits point towards RAD.

That being said MS will create/inforce what ever standards they feel will sell more computers/software. It's got nothing to do with providing better user interfaces. Thats just a side-effect.

I do wish the MS would either make it easier for us (Developers) to create non-standard interfaces. And/Or make it easier for us to make suggestions to them. (And yes, feedback would be great!)

Sam