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

Geez, MS should do their cost/benefits analysis for IE exactly the same way.