You only need one person to take your post the wrong way, and everyone seems to follow.

I think it's quite funny how it was a Monopoly board, being MS and all that......

Kev

>>>It's sad that person that calls himself a reporter came to the press conference not to report on it but to create a news. I wouldn't call him a reporter at all.
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>>What's even sadder (and possibly very arrogant) is why Bill Gates should consider that anyone would want to read about his views on the game of bridge.
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>>While I agree that reporters should not be creating news, the best reporters actively try to ask the questions that should be asked, rather than report what is fed to them. While the big issues surrounding BG are the investigations into MS's possible abuses of power, then, IMO, any good reporter will be asking questions about that rather than something so inconsequential as bridge.
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>But that's the thing. Reporters were told that they could'nt ask questions on things related to Microsoft. That's why I think that it was a funny approach to come at that press conference with a Monopoly board game. The main topic of the conference was respected. Bridge and games in general.
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>From now on I'll never tell anything bad (that implies jokes, comments or whatever) about MS or Bill Gates or anything related to computers. I'll always go with the flow.
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>The last thing I suspected from that "Joke" was the reaction that I got. I thought that I'd get completely different replies than what I received.
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>I'll begin right away just to show you how serious I am about it.
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>Message to Marketing department for VFP: "Keep up the good work. Some tremendous efforts were made since the last changes with the persons in charge. I'm amazed you guys made so much in so little time"