Microsoft spent Billions of dollars and used thousands of programmers to create Vista/DRM, taking 5 years. And it has so far not impressed too many people.
It’s a pity they couldn’t spend just 10 or 20 million a year to keep Foxpro development going. (That would have at least pleased thousands of Foxpro programmers, and millions of users of Foxpro applications.)
And with .NET it’s all or nothing, with Billions being spent there too. And still, they had to rob the tiny Foxteam of it’s last remaining developers, because even with the billions they spent, they could not find guys that knew much about data handling.