Hiya Mike

How's things? Microsoft does make a point of informing the general public of security concerns in IE/Windows/Mail etc. Is that not similar to listing bugs?

>>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???
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>No. Unless you can show that there's some logical connection between the two.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Which is why I don't excpet it from anyone who professionally sells software. Its called being realistic. Give it a whirl.
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>>Continuing to accept the current situation as regards VFP bug reporting is unhelpful to us all.
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>It doesn't bother me much.