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>>What justifies all the fuss??
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>"Microsoft Corporate Policies" that make that talented developers like yourself accept that your products are not be at the levels of QA that any other industry would consider minimal. Would it be acceptable that GM would not report a small bug, a screw that's loose, because they do not have the time to maintain a customer support system or because car dealers are sloppy when they report loose screws?
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>"Microsoft Corporate Policies" that are the cause that VFP is probably better than it used to be, but not nearly as good as it could have been if reasonably professional criteria of Quality Assurance had been the norm at Microsoft during the last 15 years and probably more importantly, if the real potential of the product had been recognized.
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>People like Jim who do not accept this situation, although like the rest of us, he could work around most of the bugs.

Thank you, Marc. And I hope this horse is still not dead.

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>My 2 Euro cents of dead horse...
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>Marc