>Dude, I feel your pain but having announced this decision Microsoft is not going to change its mind. They have enormous cash >reserves and don't need to run a fund drive or bake sale to keep a product going. They decided it's a non-strategic product >they don't want to continue updating. End of story.

Yeah, I know, wishful thinking. MS would much rather force the VFPers into bigger money stuff like MSDN annual subscriptions, and even more significantly, force all the VFPers customers into SQL server licensing. Cha-Ching!

I think what I'll miss the most out of VFP is the VFP community. There is a lot of sharing and openness. It seems to me that all the other MS languages suffer from DON'T COPY ME syndrome, as though every freaking line of code is a trade secret. Maybe it's not as bad as I imagine, but I can unreservedly assert that I've always been helped (nearly instantly) here on the UT.