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>>They've said that pushing it out of the box will give a better marketing capability by letting them push VFP's own specific strengths. They've said that there will be more marketing for VFP. They have $30 BILLION in cash sitting in the bank and growing at $1 BILLION per month. A measly 1-2 percentage of the monthly cash would do a fine marketing campaign for VFP.
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>I will be very surprised if any of that $30 billion is diverted to market VFP. It just isn't going to happen.

So you're saying there will be *no* marketing? By the way, I meant 1-2 percentage of *one* of those monthly $1 BILLIONS, not 1-2% per month or anything like that.

Let me guess that you really mean that marketing is a separate budget.
My point was they have oodles and oodles and oodles of cash, all "budgets" aside. They ought to "live a little" and spend a comparatively small amount to EXPOSE their best-kept secret.
Any argument that any group/dept. at MS is constrained by budgets simply tells me that the MS purse controllers are proving to be way too tight.

Cheers