Actually Sigler told us in 1996(?) that VFP was to be marginalized. I actually acted on his advice- a long time ago and the story isn't relevant now. But I still find it amazing that VFP survived as long as it did after that. I'd glad, and IMHO that's something for which we need to thank MS (or possibly more correctly, the handful of old foxheads who stuck in there inside MS until the bitter end.)
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
