>Finally, if the company (MS) is going to openly state as fact that products involving millions of lines of code used in thousands of permutations and combinations cannot possibly be bug-free, then don't they have some obligation to keep us INFORMED of those bugs???

No. Unless you can show that there's some logical connection between the two.

I for one think it would be great if every software company had to show every weakness in their software publically... except for my own of course.

I do NOT want my customers seeing whats wrong with their software, and I especiallly do NOT want potential customers seeing whats wrong with what they might buy. Thats just horrible business. Stupid, really.

Which is why I don't excpet it from anyone who professionally sells software. Its called being realistic. Give it a whirl.

>Continuing to accept the current situation as regards VFP bug reporting is unhelpful to us all.

It doesn't bother me much.