You're wrong. Tata is a cheap car. But they bought the Jaguar. I mean the most important thing is quantities, not prices. Microsoft's revenues on OS and Office sales... Microsoft gives development tools so cheap to software firms. 10 MSDN subscriptions at 400$ for software firms with MS EMPOWER program.


>When the development tools start costing less than the OS, then I'll believe this.
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>>>Hi Mike.
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>>>>Exactly. You hear it with some frequency but it is misguided to blame FoxPro's demise on customers. Customers began drifting away from VFP for valid reasons. It's the obligation of the vendor to put out a product customers still want to buy, not of customers to blindly keep on buying. Once you peel off the emotional layer, this is just standard, rational consumer behavior.
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>>>I suppose so, but what about VFP developers who continue to use VFP 6? VFP 7 was a huge upgrade. IntelliSense alone is worth the price of admission many times over. Why does VFP 6 continue to be the most used version of VFP?
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>>>Doug
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>>Hi All,
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>>I think so Microsoft never think about earn money with development tools. These tools just for gain more Windows and SQL Server users. Windows becomed most used OS with these development tools. There is a prominence after that stage; VFP. VFP doesn't need SQL Server.
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>>Maybe that's not the reason for VFP's die. But I'm sure VFP product sells not the reason.
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>>Microsoft never wanted to earn money with development tools...