>Very well said. We, the community, may not like it but that is the decision and it is nothing new or surprising, as several of us have also said.

Exactly. It is a business decision in which there is no room for emotion. But, I reserve the right to disagree with that decision and do legally, what I can to continue using VFP. I also hope that a much more powerful data handling developer's app based on VFP is quietly being readied somewhere in the Redmond complex. I don't think VB.net or C# will ever surpass what VFP can do.