Fernando,

You are wrong here. ANYONE can be a beta tester. You just have to fill out a form to be considered. Send an email to betareq@microsoft.com. You'll get an autoreply with information on how to do this. Its too late for VFP8, but not for 9. Note that applying does not mean acceptance.

Ken has never said that only DevCon attendees will get the beta. What MS has done in the past is have two groups that get the beta. Group 1 is the official beta sites. These are the people accepted from applying for the beta. Group 2 is DevCon attendees. I assume the same will be true for the VFP8 beta.

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>I find it a complete discrimination MS providing beta copies just to those that can afford to attend DevCon (you wrote: "The only way to obtain the VFP 8.0 beta is to be already on the beta list or get a copy by attending DevCon"). Why? Our community is shrinking (my opinion), nobody cares about VFP but our community (my opinion), VFP is not marketed out of our community (everybody knows)... so why not to support their members by giving them some goods that are common to other products?
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>If there is a policy to give beta copies to people other than those in the beta list (the DevCon attendees), why not to make what MS already does with, say, .NET (I received 2 or 3 CD copies of it in my home sent by MS Brazil)?
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