>>What importance Fox had, came from us, from the Fox team, and from occasional slips of the rest of Microsoft.
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>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."
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>MicroSloth has been trying for years to get that self-fullfilling prophecy to come true, and finally succeeded.

Took them quite a number of years - almost ten, right?

The slimy years (2001-) were, now in retrospect, well, the slimiest. While telling us that VFP in managed code would have to lose its local data engine, that it's practically impossible to get past the 2G barrier etc, so that we'd vote it out of VS "all by ourselves", they had the balls to try to hijack FUGs into becoming dot-net-UGs. So bleed VFP not just of any technology it had, but of the developers that worked on it (just count the former members of FoxTeam who rank high in M$) AND of the developers who made it important - us.