From: Stewart Berman on
>Support Professional can assist you in a more efficient manner. Please be
>advised that contacting phone support will be a charged call.

I think I'll pass on that. If I were to pay for every software bug I hit -- in third party as well
as MS -- I'd need a lot bigger revenue stream just to break even.

Anyway, we developed a workaround for the symptom -- that is the bug still affects the flow but we
are able to complete the process.

changliw(a)online.microsoft.com ("Charles Wang [MSFT]") wrote:

>Hi Stewart,
>According to the current information, it is hard to give a reason why this
>issue happened at some of your computers but worked on other computers with
>the same Access 2007 runtime components. What I suggested before was trying
>to help isolate if this is a possible problem. But since this issue is
>environment specific and hard to be reproduced at our side, if you want to
>track the root cause of the issue, a dump analysis is required. You need to
>contact Customer Support Services (CSS) via telephone so that a dedicated
>Support Professional can assist you in a more efficient manner. Please be
>advised that contacting phone support will be a charged call.
>
>To obtain the phone numbers for specific technology request please take a
>look at the web site listed below.
>http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;EN-US;PHONENUMBERS
>
>If you are outside the US please see http://support.microsoft.com for
>regional support phone numbers.
>
>Best regards,
>Charles Wang
From: "Charles Wang [MSFT]" on
Hi Stewart,
For contacting CSS, if this issue is proved to be a product issue, you will
not be charged at last. Anyway I am glad to hear that you have found a
workaround by yourself.

Best regards,
Charles Wang

From: Stewart Berman on
The problem with CSS is that you are charged first and then, IF CSS
completes problem determination AND decides it is a bug you get a refund.
Meanwhile they have your money for as long as it takes for them to get to
the problem and forever if they can't do problem determination. I wonder
how much is earned on the float.

Yes, I have a workaround but the bug will probably bite a number of people
and might take a few out. Hopefully, someone will hit it in the 2010 beta.

changliw(a)online.microsoft.com ("Charles Wang [MSFT]") wrote:

>Hi Stewart,
>For contacting CSS, if this issue is proved to be a product issue, you will
>not be charged at last. Anyway I am glad to hear that you have found a
>workaround by yourself.
>
>Best regards,
>Charles Wang