The MVPs could have protested until the cows come home and it would have made no difference whatsoever. The decision was already made. When VFP 9 shipped with no plans announced for VFP 10 -- something that ALWAYS happened before -- the writing was on the wall. When practically the whole VFP team moved on to other things, the writing was on the wall.


>I read MVP news letters on VFP block before summit.
>It seems to me ( may be I was wrong), people had mood to press MS a little bit, just more. And now looking summit news I did not see any fight at all.
>May be I was wrong, when read MVP news letters before.
>Look comments after
>
>http://blogs.msdn.com/yag/archive/2007/03/13/message-to-the-vfp-community.aspx
>
>Generally people don't like it.
>I mean, they ask, why so?, what for, what is the reason for it,shame , etc.,
>and these questions are not to VFP team (their job was very good) , but to some big shorts somewhere else.
>At www.foxclub.ru now there is very big noise conserning it, and nobody was able to defend MS point of view. So, I am just trying to share this biggest regret with somebody being more near to MS.