>Hi Craig ----
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>>There are a couple of reasons. You are the client and should expect things to be right. In the case of the mobile...that started this entire thread...the Solution Provider would have direct contact to his contacts in Microsoft sales. Robert would have to track down which group did the mobile and then the person that was in charge of it..a process that may take several hours.
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>The real burn about the mobile and the promotion is that it offers a free NT Workstation to anyone buying *any* of the VS languages *except* VFP.....I just noticed that today when looking closely at the hideous thing.....
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>On a side note, this mobile is now known to scare small children :-D
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>It really is scary looking with some bald Sardonicus face (the other side looks like a valley girl on drugs) surrounded by floating MS tools. It is a true "tour de dork".

I'd be interested to hear what happens if you order VFP and try to get the free NT Workstation. I'm not an SP, but someone (an SP) should complain loudly to the SP group at MS.