What portion do you feel is too harsh? The part where I said they are ignoring it? That was the only opinion. The rest was just facts. And they definitely ignore bugs at times. Look at the bugs that have been in the product for years that they never fix. And these days they say "this is the most stable version of VFP, yet", but refuse to release a bug list or bug fix list for the "dot-oh" version. Well, this is the first version of VFP where, upon upgrading, my clients have run into significant problems. Fortunately not so significant that we are going to move back to VFP 7, but more significant than any I experienced before. I imagine they will do the same thing in VFP 8 - "it the most stable version yet", but won't back that up with details.

Russell


>>Personally, I think MS has a bug here that they are simply not able to reproduce (and we all know those bugs are hard to fix).

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>Possibly you are right, but
>>So for now it's getting ignored.
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>When I am in such a situation, I usually try my hand on it (sometimes even slipping it in with "planned work", since budget is not always there or it is directed elsewhere <g>) and talk about it when it was fixed. Since I have quite a good average, I am able to cover/hide the times when the bug slips by and I am not autorized to work on it - as also happens <bg>.
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>Especially Aleksey also tries to give some background info, which helps, and sometimes tells about fixes/changes afterwards - so your statement sounds a bit too harsh to my ears. Do you have more facts about usual modus operandi at MS ?
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>regards
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>thomas