Well, we got wind of a deal that Borland NZ were doing, where you purchased (or upgraded) to D7 from any other Delphi Pro version and you got a software assurance (or it was part of the price) that you got Delphi 8 when it was availible. To quote from the document I got from Borland, "Upgrade to Delphi 7 Studio NOW and with Software Assurance, receive Delphi 8 automatically !"I'm here Jeremy and I most certainly didn't say that. I said that you would get .NET progress updates from us - and people most certainly did. There were three update packs for D7 + an IDE plugin that allowed you to compile in the IDE + a converter tool from resource files to .PAS files (which is what .NET may need, I'm not sure). I'm not sure how useful they were but... :-)
But, in saying that, I remember Richard saying when Delphi 7 was released that if you brought Delphi 7 you got the .Net IDE update for free. Then they decided to call it Delphi 8 ! Which then made me think, have they gone back on what they said now, but then I heard about the above, so I guess they are staying true to what they said.....GOOD ON YA BORLAND !
Jeremy
That deal for software assurance goes for 12 months from date of purchase, you get all major and minor upgrades for a period of 12 months - which as far as I know includes Delphi for .NET and Delphi 8.
Anyway the situation has changed, if people are interested in .NET and Delphi then you need to contact me, sign a non-disclosure agreement and I can tell (and show) you more.
Richard
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