Those hundreds of thousands of business will not migrate away from Windows just because VFP is no longer updated. A very small number may migrate. There is nothing that says those businesses can't run .Net-based apps talking to SQL Express for the same cost as a VFP app.

>I think that is peanuts comparing to *commodity* called keeping
>hundreds of thousands businesses under windows platform and all direct and foremost indirect income it brings.
>You must have been working mostly in large enterprise environments, but if count how meny times one small office purchased entire small network (Win server and 5-10 PCs with xp&Office ) because his VFP app overgrew desktop or peer2peer netw proportions then that picture changes quiet a bit.
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>This still happens even nowdays. Maybe not all that much in US but in developing countries this is still very frequent situation. And that was imho overlooked.