>>I simply asked why the VFP should make a noise in the first place. That Mr. Ryan, is entirely appropriate.
As is my response. A deafening silence from the MS team may be an answer in itself- a more valuable result than screeds of conjecture. Equally, should the VFP team choose to respond, all the rest of it is as nothing. So lets button-up and wait and see!
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
