>Hi Phil,
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>Funny how this kind of thing takes sooo loong though, considering the speed with which most (yes, I know, not *all*) things *CAN* happen at MS. . . Bill Gates is widely reported, back in July, to have said that they need to do a better job of listening to thier customers, yet what prograss have you seen in that area???
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>Why, on January 27 I asked Mr. Green (VFP Marketing) to please consider including any and all available VFP fixes in Service Packs, and this request was supported by several in this forum. Yet, here we are at Feb. 17 and still no response!!!
>Now it likely is that he doesn't want to do it so prefers not to deliver "bad" news. But what good does that do us???
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>Regards,
>
>Jim N
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>>>I suspect that Microsoft is long overdue for some sort of company-wide reengineering. They have become too fragmented - one hand is clueless as to what the other is doing. As a company, they have lost focus.
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>>According to recent industry rags, Ballmer is working on this right now....
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>>Regards,


And the Justice Department is considerng "breaking up" Microsoft. Imagine what THAT would do for their communication between divisions. Sometimes I'd like to just lock the OS group and the Applications/Developer Tools Group (Ie: VFP) together in a room until they get all this crap straightened out and working better together!