>Never mind that "everything with data has more work involved, and is generally not as fast" and that the complexity level increases exponentially - it is the MS "vision" so it must be good!

Remember the old article, several years ago, titled something like "Why do the hardware vendors smile when you say you need a machine to run Windows". Why should it be fast - if M$ had made things that run fast, we'd see the first Pentium shipped today, and not so many years ago. It's written to run slow, and the dissatisfied customer can always be told his machine is suboptimal.

>Some day the package will say VFP and it will be a lot of hooks to other products. Then it will be VFP but will have been subtly remaned to "Virtual FoxPro".

I'd prefer it the other way 'round - to see my machine boot in Fox, and then have File menu with "new/open/save/save as/start Windows/reboot/shutdown"...