>Hi Elmer,
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>"Dr. Watson" comes to mind... ;-)
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>>I have also never been asked and have always wondered this myself. I highly doubt it and would be really PO'd to find out that they did, but maybe MS has secretly put a "phone home" function that sends usage info when you use VFP or the other stuff in MSDN in order to collect such "accurate" data. Did anyone say spyware? LOL.

Wouldn't get past my firewall. It doesn't.

Unless they're using the download count for SP1. That would be accurate enough.