There is nothing that requires the VFP team to have the final VFP8 shipping by the end of the month. I can tell you that VFP will not be available from your reseller by Jan. 31. It has not RTMed yet. General availability is 6-8 weeks after RTM. If you absolutely must have VFP 8 sooner, then you should get an MSDN subscription. You'll be able to download VFP8 shortly after RTM and won't have to wait for media production.


>John,
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>I will say this, I don't know exactly who "we" is? But I do know that today is January 13, 2003. If January 31, 2003 is the cut off date, that give you less than Three weeks to package and have the product on the shelf. And if you get it on the shelf by that date, I will probable need to order and have it send fedex over nite to get it here before my beta expires.
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>Don't take this the wrong way, I am really your greatest fan. I would just like to get a more concrete answer.
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>Thank
>Tim Boccaleri
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>>Don't you think we picked 1/31 for the timeout for a reason? ;-)
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>>I understand that this beta will expire at the end of the month. But, I would hope that Microsoft would have the final ready by the end of the month or release another beta or a patch to get us all by until the final is released.
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>>So, I hope Ken and the rest of the Microsoft guys read this. Please don't leave us all hanging....
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>>Thanks
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>>Tim Boccaleri
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