>The real benefit to the customer and to the owner of the code with .NET is that in 5-10 years the .NET code will very likely be very viable on whatever the current version of Microsoft's desktop/server OS exists at the time,
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>I have extensive Y2003 C# code that is essentially unmaintainable because it is pre-typed dataset and everybody who encounters it wants to rewrite. and now senior MS execs are quoted saying development will be completely different in 5 years. I'm wondering what they're comparing to. ;-)

Exactly the #5 (or so) reason I'm staying with VFP - it's compatible with itself, and the development being finished, not prone to fashion changes. Stable, at last.