>>You know, that's really nonsense. MSFT poured a major effort into VFP 3 and there was marketing and advertising. The "do nothing" marketing came much later.
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>No it's not nonsense. I saw no "major effort." But the main thing is that the "do nothing" approach did come and it worked. When a company ignores any product, people start getting hesitant about using that product. So M$ turned their back on it for long enough, then turned around and said "Well, look, we can't do anything else with this product because the user base is so small." But that was due their own efforts (or lack thereof). They couldn't just kill it outright because that would have given them a black eye. So they kill it through attrition while they get .NOT up and running.
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IIRC I saw one Microsoft ad in a trade rag (InfoWorld maybe?) for VFP 3. I don't think I've seen a Microsoft ad in anything outside of a VFP specific magazine since then. If Microsoft intended to market the product to people who weren't already using VFP, they certainly need a new marketing strategy.