>Don't make a blanket statement on this. "Some" or "Many" small business don't want to upgrade is more accurate.

I think you're wrong, Craig. And with you always saying things like "smart business decision" I should think you'd see that right away. But in case you don't... no business (repeat: NONE) wants to throw out an asset that works perfectly fine EXCEPT that it will not work (or will perform poorly) with the NEXT big software release.
We developers thrive on that stuff, but to business it's co$t and they like to keep that down as much as possible. And they're getting much more conscious of that, not less.

My guess is that MS expects VISTA to sell based on improved security. My guess is that if that doesn't work MS will discontinue doing security patches for the other OSs. I don't think that will work though.



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>>That's not my point. My point is that small business doesn't want to upgrade OS and hardware if there is an 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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>I'm not sure MS is well aware of our opinion. Opinions change. Mine has changed heaps in recent weeks.
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>I've personally talked to Eric Rudder, Soma, Craig Simonds, and been in the room when BillG was asked about the future of VFP. They know what the VFP community has asked for. Look at it this way, the VB6 to .Net issues were much louder and public than what's going on with VFP and it did nothing. Do you really think MS execs are going to listen to VFP devs any more than VB?