This just in . . .
Manubian star destroyers are rapidly closing in on Earth. The U.S. Defense council has been attempting to signal terms of surrender, but the cloaked warships are not responding. Darth Obama and oldtress Hillarious have been summoned to help, but nobody has been able to get them to break their deathgrips on each other's neck. Lord McCain has volunteered to blast the Manubians back to Helderon, but he wants to make sure up to 2 million of the Helderons are allowed to relocate to New York city.

However, it appears to be too little-too late. What a shame, that the best database programming language ever developed is about to meet the same fate as Microsoft's flagship - dot net, and everything else on the planet.

Lord Kahn said in a decoded sublineal transmission that, "It is time for payback to Darth Gater, who sent out his latest operating system, Mista-Vista and caused many of the Manubian warship destroyers to explode, when their capacitorion drivers stopped working." It appears Lord Kahn is about to exact his revenge after failing so miserably for more than a decadron....


>Redmond, Washington - April 1, 2008
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>Microsoft announced today that it is re-constituting the Visual FoxPro team and moving forward with continuing development of its flagship database development tool. "Visual FoxPro has always been the pre-eminent tool in its market, as well as my personal favorite," said chairman Bill Gates. "When I found out it had been shelved, I sacked the people responsible and took steps to immediately restore VFP to its rightful position at the top of our suite of developer tools."
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>Reaction from the Visual FoxPro community was swift and positive. "We knew a mistake had been made when it was announced there would be no VFP 10," said one prominent developer. "It's gratifying to know that Microsoft has seen the light. Visual FoxPro not only enables us to create great solutions for our customers, it also drives sales of Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office, and other Microsoft products that are frequently used together in a Visual FoxPro solution."
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>Details about the next release of Visual FoxPro are expected to be announced shortly. A 64-bit edition is rumored to be in the works, as well as changes to the core database engine enabling it to function as a true client-server tool. "We're pulling people off other teams to make this work," said one senior Microsoft executive who asked to remain anonymous. "We have an unlimited budget and will devote whatever resources are necessary to this project."
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