>>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."

Well, I remember being invited to Redmond at Microsoft's expense with 25-30 other FoxPro experts to see a preview of the product and provide feedback. I remember the '95 DevCon (the largest ever).

I also look at VFP 3 and compare it to FP2.x. Do you remember how much was new and different? Do you remember trying to get your head around it all?

>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.

I don't disagree with you on this. I just think it's silly to say that was the intention from day 1. That would ascribe better planning to Microsoft than I've ever seen. This is the company that was late to the game on the Internet and turned on a dime to embrace it.

>Tamar, are you just a M$ apologist?

No, definitely not. But I hate to see history distorted.

Tamar