>Perhaps you are right, perhaps it's all about moving more SQL servers.

I don't think so. I think it was simple economics. VFP sales decreased to the point that the business unit couldn't support itself (or it was close to it)

>But don't you think you're a bit biased considering you rely on your skill set with Microsoft products for your job, your status depends on skills certified by Microsoft, and you have continued work as Microsoft changes things over and over?

My Microsoft certification is old...based on VS 6.0.

>Perhaps, as the very least, you will admit you are not a lawyer and your statement is not based on any professional opinion and just a guess?

Correct. But, here's how I arrived at my thoughts. Let's say the Dynamics group walked over to the DevDiv and said, "You know, there are lots of FoxPro accounting apps out there. If you kill VFP, it would help us." If it happened that way, then I could see justification for following through with an anti-trust claim. I just don't see that it worked out that way. Most of the non-DevDiv Microsoft people I've talked to over the years said, "FoxPro??? Do we still make that??"

>I don't know about your business situation, does your livelyhood depend on the sales of a product that competes with Microsoft?

I don't think my business situation does, but the product I work on does compete with a Microsoft product. But let's say your entire business is based on a single product that does compete. Do you stop selling your product for a year while you rewrite? I don't think so.

>But I agree with you, they may be in the same product categories. But they would have a much harder time competing with many other vendors if those vendors didn't have to re-tool their products. Don't take the above offensively, it isn't meant to be so. Be well.

Microsoft has been hinting for years that we should start looking at .Net. For years, many in the VFP community have been saying that eventually VFP would go away. It's not like the announcement from MS was a total surprise. If you weren't working on retooling, that's your fault.. not Microsoft's.