>>>If MS is dropping VFP then they see no value in it's future. If it has no value, can we have the source code? This great community must not be disolved.
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>>>VFP is the best development platform I have ever used. I'm sure it can be adjusted to fit any future OS. I have to ask, what prompted their decision to destroy it?
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>>For many years VFP generated revenues mostly for application developers while MS part was negligible comparing with their mainstream tools. Basically, pure VFP development gave too much comfort to both developer and customer and not too many advantages for software vendor.
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>So, as long as the MS bottom line is okay, they don't give a poop about us?


They wouldn't put it quite that vividly but in essence that's the size of it. And? Microsoft chooses which products to promote, which to maintain, and which to drop based on market share and cost-benefit analysis, just like any other rationally managed business. It's not like they were out to get us.