Thank you very much, Jim. I take great care to make informed, responsible comments aimed at constructive, positive changes, not personal or irresponsible derogatory remarks. You will not find many stronger supporters of VFP. John, I trust that you and the rest of the VFP team will also be responsive to bug reports posted here on UT and on the appropriate Microsoft newsgroups, where all concerned can get the benefit of both the knowledge and any pertinent discussion about problems that people may encounter.

Mike

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>>Stew, Saunders, and I are on the UT all the time and we *love* bugs. By all means, report bugs loudly and often. That's not negative at all; it helps us improve the product. Reporting reproducible bugs puts you in our pantheon of really great customers. I welcome a personal email from anyone who has a bug....I research them and respond - ask anyone who's ever sent me one.
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>There's no doubt in my mind that the entire VFP Team *love* VFP and that some of you "love bugs".
>And I'm glad to hear you say that the people who report bugs are really your "really great customers".
>Since the bug reporting facility has no place for contact information, I guess the list of "really great customers" has one name on it - JOHN DOE.
>As for sending bugs by personal e-mail, many (most?) of us wouldn't dream of doing so. Of course its great that you handle them when you get them, but personal contact is neither the publicized practise nor a fair and reasonable method.
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>>OTOH, if you're going to make a lot of noise about the product, at least support it by upgrading when the upgrades are available. If you want to wait to upgrade for personal or business reasons, I respect that, but I ask that you hold off on damaging or derogatory comments until you've had sufficient hands-on time on the latest version to post informed comments.
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>Damaging or derogatory comments???? Can you point to such comments [about VFP] by anyone (not just Mr. Asherman) on the UT? Now if you consider criticism of a constructive nature as "damaging or derogatory" then you will find quite a bit of it here, from many quarters. Do you think that people providing such do not also *love* VFP? Believe me, they do. They want to make it ever better and they want to help it grow.
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>>VFP7 rocks! It's so tuned towards developer productivity and so solid that I can't imagine why anyone wouldn't upgrade.
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>Several people have offered several good reasons why they have yet to upgrade. One of them, Mr. Asherman, offered a suggestion that reviewing and rewriting the marketing material to make all of the deployed enhancements better known might make it more attractive to more people. This was after he learned of one such item here (that was not at all evident by reading the original marketing stuff) that now, 8 full months after delivery, compels him to buy the upgrade.
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>While being your (that is MS') customers all by itself confers the 'right' to criticize, people here spend lots of time, and many of them their good money, to be a part of the "community". Personally I can't imagine a single one of them having the demise of VFP as even an iotic part of their agenda. You (that is, MS) have to make allowances for the different ways that people express themselves and pay closer attention to what is said and not how something is said.
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>>>There was never any doubt that I intended to upgrade, when it suited my schedule and best interests. I'm sure I will enjoy the new features, and I expect to continue finding VFP to be a terrific, high-quality product, which is why I became a devoted user in the first place. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if I run across a few more bugs. If I report those bugs, am I being negative? It is not a healthy attitude to look at things this way.