Jeff,

This brings to mind the "six phases of a project":

Excitement
Disillusionment
Panic
Search for the guilty
Punishment of the innocent
Praise and honors for the non-participants who started the project

(g)

>Mike,
>
>You are forgetting the classic stages of acceptance. If I remember correctly, they are: denial - fear - anger - acceptance. With MS, it becomes: denial - fear - anger - acceptance - disgust.
>
>>This seems to have become your mantra of late. A more accurate statement would be that nobody in the VFP community is satisfied with Microsoft's marketing. The very fact that Charlie needed to ask that question speaks volumes.