MSFT is still playing catchup (although they definitely have a foot in the door). The government likes to spend 19,000.00 to 45,000.00 per vehicle computer:

http://www.sbs.com/pressroom/464

Remember the old Grid Computer (when it was grid computers before Tandy, etc)? I used one in numerous field operations in the mid 80s. they were actually very good at the time and also very durable. My first computer training as an actual programmer was on the TACCS system. The Army sent me to school. It used the CTOS/BTOS system. We had to go to school to learn 17 different programming languages (different programs were written in different languages). That was what probably stuck my feet on this path of programming actually.

https://atiam.train.army.mil/soldierPortal/atia/adlsc/view/public/4797-1/fm/24-24/2424c23.htm




>>As long as we're on the quote topic, should'nt it be official. I mean somewhere on MS's site.
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>>I'd like to see something like "Visual Studio .Net and Visual FoxPro and ... are products supported equally by Microsoft.
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>>A proof of that is that Visual FoxPro 9 was released some months ago. There is a beta service pack 1 available for it and Visual Studio 2005 will be released shortly. and so on ..."
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>>That would be nice. Would'nt it?
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>Correcto mundo - but understand - MS forgot the concept of "customer" a while back. We are now a market. And there is no way we can compete with the war-to-get-a-piece of that half trillion dollar US defense budget. It's a lot easier for MS to make unsolisited sales of CE's (to the taxpayer) for mounting in military machines (how many CE licenses are in one Hummer?) than it is to have to actually convince the consumer market to write them a check for something (gosh then they would actually have to compete, market and listen to objections). It's "a take it ot leave or leave it" marketing strategy. There is innovation going on in companies not feeding on the gravy train of defense procurement. We just need to get through this moment (looks bad) before we get to the future (looks better).