>>Well, the entire time may not be all of M$'s fault. The request was submitted from development in December, but I don't think the PO cleared in-house approval until mid-January. But that's still 2 complete months in M$'s hands. Maybe a missive to BG is in order.
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>Can't you guys order from vendors? I gave up ordering from MS for both cost and slowness reasons (excepting patches, where there's no choice). Vendors can usually tell you if they have something in stock right away, and if they don't, you can look elsewhere...


I think we DO order from vendors. But I really couldn't tell you for sure, since I'm not involved in Purchasing. My only involvement is in recommending what to buy, not who we actually buy it from. I know we get a lot of stuff from Ingram, Tech Data, etc, but where VS comes from ????