On Tue, April 14, 2009 2:36 pm, Stephen Russell wrote:

> So you are upset that as a computer professional you were caught off

> guard that a major application used worldwide changed 2 years ago in

> particular working with your bread and butter and you just found out?

>

> Sorry to hear about that. I thought that was why we got MSDN

> subscriptions, to keep aware of what was happening.

>

> how big are the XML files anyway? in kb or megs I am asking.

>

> Is there a change in layout from last years files to todays?

No, I think he's justifiably upset because there was no need to take the

DBF export option out of Excel. I can see no benefit to MS to do such a

feature drop. (...resisting conspiracy theories!!! haha)