>Maybe "Marketing" means something here!

Sure. Microsoft has marketed VB and VS as the flagship (primary) developer tool for over 10 years now. VFP has evolved well over the past 10 years, but not marketed the same way. This is not news. :) People should know that the plan for evolving VFP was never to go beyond a few versions, at least in the eyes of most people at Microsoft. We are going to market VFP 9.0 more than we did for VFP 7.0 and 8.0, in the way of new case studies on microsoft.com and such. But of course it will never come close to what is and will be done for VS. The launch of Visual Studio 2005 and marketing on the .NET platform on November 7th and beyond will be huge, like nothing ever done before for Microsoft developer tools.