The level of frustration in this community has been high and I don't think the "gurus" communicated strongly enough with M$.

Actually, if you need to blame someone, you can blame all those people in the community that are still developing in VFP 6 (which, by the way, is the most widely used version).

For a more complete explanation, see Andy's Blog at http://weblogs.foxite.com/andykramek/archive/2007/05/19/3815.aspx