David,

I agree. Ken is most likely given a fixed budget to promote VFP. He can summon all his creativity and marketing finesse to do the best he can with that budget. Microsoft is also most likely doing the best it can with the budget for the product manager salary - paying Ken rather than paying Joe Geek who lacks creativity, heart, and marketing savvy.

>All this whining back and forth at Ken will not change the facts of how Microsoft calculates ad budgets for existing products, and is mostly a waste of time and energy. I would prefer to see Ken spending time on more fruitful tasks than having to answer all of these attacks.