That's great! I'm glad to hear that you have a great solution that will work for you.That's not my point. My point is that small business doesn't want to upgrade OS and hardware if there is a viable alternative. I didn't fully appreciate it either until 2 weeks ago. Seeing "hardware you'd been conditioned to write off" suddenly viable again, is fantastic.
In VFP terms, being able to offer solutions that work with cheap servers and don't force OS/hardware upgrades, may turn from a liability into a pot of gold. Sorry if I didn't state it clearly enough.
You're right, MS isn't stupid. However, in the case of the original purpose of this thread, MS is well aware of our opinion and it won't make a difference.I'm not sure MS is well aware of our "opinion". Opinions change. Mine has changed heaps in recent weeks.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
