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>>>Just give me the final working product and leave the beta-testing to those who actually enjoy it.
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>>I guess I'm missing something here... VFP7 is not in beta anymore. It is the final version (Actually the 4th version of Visual FoxPro). It's kind of silly for you to be afraid to use a product in it's 4th generation.

>I thought the real beta testing was done on the first release of all of Microsofts products, by the poor fools who rush out & buy it. The

I would never call anybody in UT fools. Some of us are just a little more eager and/or daring then others. :)

>final version is sometime after SP2 is released.

My sentiments exactly. It has alway been this way. The first release is always buggy. I don't recall any version of foxpro at its init release that has not been "buggy" to some degree. But I assume that's the nature of the software business, Microsoft as well as others.

>Mike's problem seems to be another example of rushing to market with insufficient testing.

I admire the his and other's enthusiasm, but I choose not to deal with little "gotchas" right now in my life. I can wait.