>Hi George,
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>What I am trying to convince people of is that any time one of US says that something would probably be a "major undertaking" (or 'we'd lose lots of events, etc) or anything else along those lines, we are giving the MS VFP team an "out" without them having to lift a finger.
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>For over 3 millennia people the world over assumed that the sun revolved around the earth. It all added up, based on observation.
>Similarly, we can all speculate about VFP internals and VFP team pressures, etc, but that just lets VFP folks stay quiet, keeping the *real* issues to themselves.
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>Without knowledge of the *real* issues, we really are powerless.
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>So, to answer your question: in the context of the above, YES, I feel you are conjecturing on MS' behalf, saving them from telling the facts.
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>Cheers,
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>Jim N
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Hi Jim,

For a moment there it seemed like you were saying, "If you give a technical reason why you don't believe something can be done, and the folks from MS see it, they go, 'Ah-hah, well now we don't have to do that because so and so said we couldn't do it'".

Much of what I expressed earlier comes from: 1.) My knowledge Windows architecture; 2.) My knowledge of VFP architecture; 3.) My general knowledge of language design and implementation; and 4.) MS documentation. I don't claim any degree of overwhelming expertise in any of the above areas. I do know enough from all of the above to make a pretty educated guess as to why certain things work the way they do. And it's true that the "educated guess" is, indeed, conjecture. But as to it being "on MS' behalf" is quite another story.

First, I don't work that way. MS doesn't need whatever I say as an "excuse". They're going to do whatever is going to make them the most money, period. That's what they're in business for. If they don't please the majority of their customers, sooner or later, people won't buy the product. It's in their best interest, therefore, to create products that satisfy the most people possible. Whether or not you or I are among the "satisfied" isn't relevant, as long as most of the people keep buying.