>Jim Nelson is probably going to jump in and say I don't know because I wasn't there, but I would bet anything Microsoft thought long and hard before making this decision and this announcement.
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>>at least may be they think twice :) about their decision
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>>this behavior moves me Linux and Kylix in the future :(

Yes and they thought long and hard on bringing out Tax Advanatage and look what happened. Try to find a copy today. Because they think long and hard doesn't guarantee squat. Recently an article came out about how they wanted more professional programmers. They are trying to recruite them from the 500,000 folks who ocasssionaly write programs. VFP sure could have helped them with that.

Gaylen