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Microsoft lifts Visual Studio usage restrictions
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06/11/2007 12:44:33
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
Oracle
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01266988
Message ID:
01267037
Views:
10
>>>I just read the top Latest Headlines on the UT homepage. Any chance MS will lift usage restrictions on VFP?
>>
>>No! Microsoft's angle is that Windows sale subsidises sale of VFP, so you are only allowed to use VFP on Windows. I must say that I do understand their POV.
>
>WHAT?!?
>Did they know how many Windows Licenses we sold just because of an application written on VFP? :-)
>(Rhetorical question)

That's exactly my point. Microsoft wants use to create VFP applications for WIndows, so they can sell more Windows, not any other OS.
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