>>Took them quite a number of years - almost ten, right?
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>>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.
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>But, in a really dark way, it was impressive! A perfect example of implementaion of the Long Game.

The more impressive is that we're still here, after so many years and after such a long game has played out. SP2 is a sort of an end run - "we've finally fixed all of these, and we've screwed up those, which you know we'll never fix". And the reaction here was "mmm... should we take that or not? We're OK with SP1, didn't really have to bother".