>>Because he's gotten so many requests for it ahead of time, Joshua Trupin has arranged for next month's article on VFP to be posted ahead of time on the MSDN website.
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>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/01/10/VFP7/VFP7.asp
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>Maybe ahead of newsstand release? I received my subscription copy a few days ago. Nice job, Erik. You made the cover, no less!

As an incentive to subscribe, subscribers get their copies a few weeks ahead of newstand release. Generally, online articles are published coinciding with the newsstand date.