VB is done:

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=2971

And as Rick said there are far more VB programmers then VFP. And I think it's a little steeper for them to go to dotnet then VFP programmers.

I also know several dotnet guys who do software for mom and pops successfully using dotnet. Thou many here seem to think that's impossible.

>>No doubt that this is probably the primary reason why Microosoft is making this decision to not move forward. The VFP code base is VERY old - it's 20 year old code Win32 C code. This is not code that gets easily moved up to new technologies. Also some design decisions some time ago (like using its own Window Manager) are now becoming a big problem as any OS change affects the behavior of VFP and it not picking up the OS features automatically.
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>>Could it be done? Sure - products like Office get rev'd for new versions of the OS specifically. Could it be done with a small team of 5 coders or less as VFP has been running for years? Doubtful...
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>>If you threw a good chunk of money and resources at the problem this could be addressed, but that won't happen. These issues really date back to pre-2000 if you think about it and there's a reason issues like the 2 gig limit, native Windowing, Unicode integration etc. haven't been addressed in all that time and it's that these would require almost a complete rewrite of VFP.
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>You raised good points and that's why on my blog I offered solutions if Microsoft is willing to do it's part.
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>>Again - what's in it for Microsoft to do this? Microsoft didn't give in to VB6 crowd (as they well shouldn't have) and they surely won't give in to the much, much smaller VFP community.
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>But VB was not canceled. Not the same thing here.
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>> But it's a hurdle that one gets over and then and only then does the benefit kick in.
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>True and hope it's fast to learn!
>But many forget the small and mom and pop companies that don't have the thousands to invest in rewriting something that work for them.
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>Like I mentioned in another thread, if they make a SP3 to support the next OS then I will make my peace(but won't like it in secret ;) )