There were lots of VFP devs that were taken by surprise when Microsoft announced there would not be any more development on VFP. Anyone that had been paying attention for 2+ years before then would have seen it coming and started looking at alternative technologies.

>What shouldn't have been a surprise? I don't remember talking about anything being a surprise, so I'm unclear about what you're referring to.
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>>It shouldn't have been a surprise to anyone.
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>>>Yes, it was. But with this new initiative, I just couldn't resist poking them about this again. I'd like to poke them with a red-hot piece of iron from the blacksmith's furnace for what they did to VFP, if you want my real opinion. <g>