>John,
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>>Your welcome...Of course..you knew I would have one...
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>No, I didn't I am not clairvoyant. *g*

You should know by now Dave that if I make an assertion - one that could be proved by observable fact, the fact will be there....


>Quoting another post of your in the thread:
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>>>> So in not so many words, MS has not committed to there being a VFP 10.
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>MS has not said there would not be a VFP10.
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What I said is a pure statement of fact. MS is NOT committing to there being a VFP 10...PERIOD. Does that mean there will not be a VFP 10. No..I cannot make that conclusion. But then again, I did not make that conclusion. Again, my post was in response to a quote Ken ALLEGEDLY made - that we subsequently denied. When I asked Ken the question re: VFP 10 - he bascially confirmed what I said. In sum...I don't see the issue you are raising.




>>Ken posted a note to say that what is happening now RE: 10 - is the same as what happened RE: 8. I think you would have to agree that Ken's statement, to put it mildly, is inaccurate.
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>The early VFP 8 discussion was more the exception than the rule.

But that is not the point, is it? The issue has to do with what happened in the past. Whether it was an exception or not is 100% irrelevant.


>>We know that products usually RTM in the late summer/early fall.
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Got any hard stats that show that late fall/early winter, late winter/early spring and late spring/early summer or any other time or year for that matter are slighted in the RTM category? I'd kind of suspect that Microsoft tries to evenly distribute RTMs across the whole year to better load balance the other affected business units like manufacturing, support and marketing, etc.
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Somebody else is going to have to confirm. Based on my recollection - 7 and 8 RTM's in the fall. I believe VS RTM'd in the fall as well. I believe 5 RTM'd in the fall as well (we wrote a book ). I believe 6 RTM'd in the last summer/fall as well.


>>The most telling piece of history we have.... EVERY recent Devcon , Calvin does a presentation on VFP.NEXT. This year, if Calvin does not give that session as part of the keynote, I think one could conclude that it is more likely than not - a new full release of VFP is unlikely.
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Umm, so have you preseen his Devcon keynote 3 months in advance? This is just another wildly speculative comment on your part.
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No...I am just saying that when the key note comes - and nothing about 10 is said, that should be indicative of something. Conclusive??? Perhaps not. Just comparing present to history.


>We are all here to keep each other honest.

Glad you see it my way Dave...