>All those DevCon attendees are going to be annoyed that there will be no new VS rollout for them to play with. "Miami Hotel Bookings take nosedive..."

Nah, I'll be there and so will around 1000 others.

>Maybe the VFP team could put any delay to good use by incorporating VFP8 features into VFP7.
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Yep!

>How about this for a scary thought... "News Flash - VB7 Team Falls Behind on implementing OO Extensions". Where might MS find a small team of talented developers who are expert in implementing robust, OO features, to get them out of their bind?

The VB team has a bunch more developers, and that may be part of the problem.
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>"News Flash - VFP Dev Team seconded to VB Team for VB7 Rollout..."

The sky is falling . . . the sky is falling . . . . <g>