- The ADO cursor engine was based on the Fox cursor engine. This was once documented on the MSDN web site, but the article appears to have been removed.

- The Fox team worked on Linq early on and may have been working on and off on it since then.

- Visual Studio data tools has gotten some direct influence from the Fox team as they have been in the same group and at one time had the same manager.

- Calvin has beefed up Intellisense in VB 9.0. A direct result of the Intellisense work he did in VFP.

There are probably other examples, but these are what come to mind at the moment.

>Are you trying to piss people off here? I'd never do that ;->
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>I agree with what your stating from an outsider POV. I have no internal M$ knowledge at all on this subject, but then again how many on this list do?
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>From my personal experience I have not seen any influx of FP into other M$ products. M$ may have extracted a great algorithm from Rushmore, but then that is just old news almost 20 years after it's birth.