>Nobody is saying don't use it. What I am saying is that if you develop an application that you want to be compliant with the Windows design standards, you don't use a blinking label, especially for the reasons proposed by Nadya. So I am arguing against it for the same reasons I would argue against a capricious, non-standard menu layout.
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>>Despite of whatever one people say in those books it does not eliminate other people's need in flashing indicators.

Yes, and I already realized the stupidity of the original idea. But anyway, it led to the interesting discussion and from my side to downloading some Files from Files section, which I may want to use in a future :)