Tom,
as others have stated, you have made your point clearly and succinctly
and, I might add, without personal assaults or misrepresentations of
someone else's position. You may want to remind me again that these
methods are part of the wreck 'process' but it is refreshing to see a
change from that behavior on occasion.

I said at the outset I should have stayed out of this discussion
because it is akin to the debate on why we have HF tools. We have MS
software and HF tools for the same reason - its what the market is
willing to buy without concern for the practices that produced those
products or where rewarding those practices will lead us in the
future. Debating the MS issue is the same as whining about the
decline of woodworking tool quality. Into the kill filter it goes...

Tom