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>>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).
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>Preaching to the choir. There was never an effort to improve VFP's market share.

FWIW, the VFP 3 beta group included a bunch of people who were experts in other Xbase technologies (Clipper, etc.). Maybe not preaching to the whole world, but a concerted effort to attract a group that had a natural inclination to the product.

Look, I'm not saying that Microsoft has done a good job of marketing VFP over the years. They haven't.

But I am tired of the claim that Microsoft bought FoxPro just to kill it. As I said, if that was their plan, they executed it exceptionally poorly.

Tamar