>>Why couldn't a modern day Fox Technologies develop a new Fox that would compile on the .Net CLR?

>That was the original plan before being dropped by Microsoft, largely due to the FoxPro developer community (at least the vocal part of the community) not wanting it.

I don't think that was the case. From what I could discern from the outside, I think Microsoft did a cost/benefit analysis and didn't feel the features were worth the buck.