>>>>If MS wanted VFP to succeed and continue into the future then they should have put more effort into marketing it and changing its image. This discussion has nothing to do with how good or bad VFP is. It has nothing to do with what technical enhancements were made to VFP. It has everything to do marketing.
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>>>Now, I do not think the MS behaviour should be made personal. The decision to kill VFP marketingwise is a "decision per default". Noone really killed our beloved Fox. Not even the top guy... It just died out of a sheer absence of support.
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>>>That's a typical attitude of companies in a monopoly situation. It's about time people consider MS for what it is: a company with a position that has evolved into a monopoly. We should not make it personal. Because there is nothing personal here. Just groups of people (the monopoly) bullying other groups of persons (the fragmented consumer base).
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>>Agreed. My next major dev tool will not be from MS. But then again I'm not looking for a job in a large corporate so I am more free as to what tool to use.
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>So what would be your next development tool then? Borland Delphi 2007?

Well, to be fair, I should change my response to "my next major dev tool will probably not be from MS". MS VFP has been good to me so I don't have an issue there and we will be developing apps in VFP9 for some time to come (several years I think). Plus we are very happy to use VFP as a backend to our websites, which we are migrating to more and more. But we do like Windev very much because it fits with the type of application development that we do very well - http://www.pcsoft.fr/us/