>Glad VFP 7.0 is available for download. We all know that software is never complete or “anomaly” free. This is a product that has been anxiously waited for and now it is here!
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>I congratulate the Microsoft staff for it’s fine work. At the same time I have mixed emotions about the “hot fix” issued yesterday. This is certainly a “heads up” from Microsoft and shows they are on top of issues that concern us. At the same time I am concerned that the retail version will not have the fixes. I just hate to see VFP 7.0 “go out the door” with known problems. This is a difficult position IMO for Microsoft but this is the world of software development.
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>Somehow I feel if the product is released to the retail market with problems of this type it will be viewed as a less than professional product. We have enough of that concept to overcome within the IT world. This could just be more “egg on face syndrome” for developers.
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>Tom

Funny, Tom, but as a "negative ninnie" I myself had similar concerns.

I was also astonished that the first note I saw on this congratulated the VFP Team on the prompt action and said 'keep them coming'. While I agree that prompt action is/was necessary, such should not have been needed in the first place!
Now it starts to look like the same thing has happened this time as happened with VFP 6 - touted as "ready" way before the rest of VS yet, when delivered, had lots of problems.
This time it was a major reason for taking it out of the box.

I can tell you this. I have my order for VFP 7 in (Programmer's Paradise Canada) and I am anxious to get it, but I would not hesitate to wait for it even longer *IF* the VFP Team withdraws it from production so that these (and any others probably also now in the works) repairs can be done.

JimN