>Hi Tamar and UT,
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>I wanted to respond to the mention about documentation and quickly introduce myself to others on UT. I joined the Visual FoxPro User Education team at Microsoft about a month ago and am currently working on the documentation.
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>We're very focused on improving the quality of the docs for our future releases and are working hard to review them for ease of use, improve technical accuracy, streamline the structure, eliminate redundant content, add suitable conceptual and task topics, and so on.
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>The next public release of the docs will contain a "Send feedback" link for each topic page so that you can submit context-sensitive feedback for us to review. We are also encouraging those who are participating in the testing process to provide feedback on the documentation.
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>In the meantime, we're working on other ways that we can encourage specific constructive feedback. We'll keep you posted on any developments we come up with. Perhaps a forum on documentation here at UT would provide an arena for that?
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>Esther Fan
>Visual FoxPro Education

Hi Esther,

Welcome aboard! It's great to hear that you are striving to make improvements in the essential area of documentation. Software and documentation are inseparable facets of a high quality product.

It's interesting that Microsoft is planning to introduce context-sensitive "Send feedback" links. While we're on the topic and thinking "out of the box", let me make a suggestion, which I hope you will give serious consideration. Instead of creating what might be perceived as an array of "black holes", why not let these links take people directly to an appropriate reserved thread or section of a discussion forum. You could use any number of different approaches to accomplish this, whether it be on UT, a Wiki, or any other implementation you find convenient.

I realize this would be a radical departure from the way things have been done in the past, but perhaps this is the way of the future. We all benefit from an open exchange of ideas, and given the choice between open discussion and blind submissions to black holes, there simply is no contest. Demonstrating the leadership to establish an open dialog with their customers would be a very great credit to Microsoft.

Mike