>> I note today that one poster said VFP 9 sales were up.
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>Just to clarify (which I already did in that thread.). The reseller you refer to is FoxToolbox.com, and they referred to their sales of VFP 9.0 as a reseller. They do not speak for the sales of VFP 9.0 world-wide for Microsoft which has little to do and often no relation to one reseller's sales of a product.

Not sure if your moderation is concentrated on this thread only but thank you. Thank you for what seems to be a preparation over what's coming.

I don't see no other way to explain what to me seems like a weird behavior from somebody in charge of marketing for a product that could me on its last major version.

How else could it be explained? Some have said that according to what they heard sales of VFP9 are doing good. You came to tell to not get too excited. I would've expected something like "Yes sales are doing good and we at MS hope that the present trend will increase blah blah blah..."

So to me those warnings are probably there to prepare us before the worst news.

Here's what my crystal ball told me.

1) First, BIG BAD NEWS for the VFP community: "There won't be a VFP 10".

2) But there are so many ways to make a MAJOR BAD ANNOUNCEMENT look like it's not so bad after all.

3) It could be something like "There won't be a VFP 10. To some this could be interpreted as very bad news. But in the coming weeks we will release a service pack. A service pack that will not only fix bugs but will also contain additions to VFP. From that point new VERY COOL things will be added to VFP on a regular base. After thorough analysis of the state of VFP and from the fedback that we received we came to the conclusion that there were not enough requests to justify a new major version. That does'nt mean that the evolution of VFP will stop..." followed by more explanations telling us why in fact this if good news.

I would like to be the firt to thank you guys for that wonderful tool that I've been able to use and probably will continue to use for a while.