>Yeah, Craig is correct. Let's look at it from a fast paced history. Microsoft put a huge effort and lots of resources into creating VFP 3.0, there were 50 people on the team and a big marketing budget. In the following years, both Access and VB grew in market share and also competed in ways with the VFP market (and message), and by the time VFP 5.0 was released, many upper managers wanted Microsoft to just end VFP there. In fact, they did for a short time. I was there, in a meeting with 40 people, and the formal announcement was made to the Fox team that VFP was dead.

Then I'm correct in a way too - except the diminishing revenue path was planned far before I could have thought it was.

While I don't harbor much love for Microsoft, I very much appreciate the islands of right people in right places inside of it - you, Foxteam and probably a few others that I can't recall at the moment.

You should write a book. Seriously.