>>>>>Mind you, it seems that they use sub-contractors for most of their business functions. That way they can say that they(MS) haven't screwed up, the contractor did (many of us say that doesn't excuse MS from blame, but a whole lot feel that it does).
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>>>>Hi Jim,
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>>>>Yeah that's what they said about who screwed up the delivery of my Visual Studio 6.0 :) BTW, finally I got it a week ago.
>>>>:)
>>>>
>>>>Nick
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>>>You must be lucky! We're STILL waiting (and waiting and waiting...)
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>>You call 4 month waiting lucky... :)
>
>OK, you've got me. We've only been waiting since December. But my clock is STILL ticking. Or is that a bomb...

Call them and say that if yo don't see your VS 6 next week you will complain to Bill Gates himself. It worked.
:)