>>I don't disagree that VFP is at end-of-life cycle. I do disagree that we were given a no-go service pack (at least for some important points) and that's just not acceptable. We deserve better than that.
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>We deserved better than that ever since M$ bought Fox. I've met my first M$ representative who had no clue that Fox was Microsoft's product, didn't even know that it existed, as early as 1995. I've gone through several M$ packages even during those years, and Fox was never given equal credits. During the VS tenure, it was advertised as an afterthought, there was no funneling of knowledge to the salesforce etc etc.
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>What importance Fox had, came from us, from the Fox team, and from occasional slips of the rest of Microsoft.

iawtc. Used to love the expressions on peoples' faces when they'd tell me that VFP was dead (starting with version 5) and I'd reply "Oh? Then why are they asking for beta testers for version (insert version here). Microsloth just WANTS you to think that so you won't want to do any more development in it."

MicroSloth has been trying for years to get that self-fullfilling prophecy to come true, and finally succeeded.