>Hello Ken,
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>Agreed, only hurt myself, but was done to maximize my contribution to VFP sales dollars. Please explain how my MSDN purchase will be considered a VFP sale, with some other stuff thrown in instead of being considered a .NET convert.
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>Bob
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>>Microsoft has very accurate data on what percentage of VFP developers obtained MSDN Subscriptions in order to obtain VFP 8.0. It appears you may only be impacting yourself by not obtaining MSDN at a discount with all the bundled software, early access to new products, etc.

I'd say it's because of you buying history. But what about others? That's unexplainable. How could they tell that John Doe buying an MS MDSN Universal package for the first time and not only that but that John Does has never bought anything from MS before. So perhaps John Does first wanted to buy VFP but when he saw all he could get by investing a reasonable amount of money he decided to get MSDN instead.

For those case how do they interpret that sale?


Now way to do it. The official answer will probably look like "We have internal procedures that are followed so that we can establish the field of interests or our customers bla bla bla..."

So you'll get a politically correct answer. No way they'll ever tell you "No fu**ing way we can figure that out"

I'll believe an answer when I see numbers, a formula. In a word something logic besides words.