>>> Microsoft bought Fox Software in 1992, which by my math was 15 years
>>> ago. I realize you were just a pup at the time ;-)
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>From a Microsof tPOV that is correct, yes. I meant the overall FP life span, starting with Fox Software.
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>So I guess the Microsoft contribution could only be 1992 to 2015. Still 23 years.
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>And yes, those days of "puppydom" were the good old days. Hard to believe that I have now been using VFP for more than half my life (I started before MS bought it).
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I remember meeting you the first time at the San Diego DevCon where VFP 3 was launched, tagging along with wOOdy. I don't think you were even 20 yet and looked about 16 ;-) But not so young you and Woody couldn't trade lecherous remarks in German about some wild child who was sitting at the table that night ;-)