Funny... I commented that I thought it was strange that a company the size of MS couldn't make their own spell checker and while on a break a few minutes ago stumbled across this article that explains their reasoning to some extent. :)
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11130Synchronicity?
Michelle
>We have a license from the third-party to redist with VFP, but no license to allow VFP devs to redist with their apps. Because of this, I always thought it was pretty useless. Apparently I'm not alone, since spellchk.app got axed in 7.0.