I should have replied to your original post. It was quite interesting. I emailed it to some people. Could you clarify something? You said "Craig was right" and he - if I remember correctly - was saying the EOL decision was about revenue (in the less-popular diminishing form). But at the same time you indicated how early on the execs wanted to kill VFP and how it competed with Access and VB. Certainly they could see that up front even before the purchase, right? It sounds like the idea was to take what technology they wanted from it and kill it to begin with, which is what I feel the evidence has always pointed towards. The diminishing revenue is then just "planned" (your word) and really an excuse. The root cause is that they simply wanted to kill it and how they did it is irrelevant (and the method and final "reasoning" certainly shouldn't be thought of as the root cause).

>Thanks. There's a lot more backstory to the history. :) Of coures, the real thanks for the credit to any extension of the life of FoxPro is the community. That Thanks to Microsoft for 10 Years of FoxPro that was put together here on the UT around 2002 did a lot for the perception and importants of the Fox community and customer base within Microsoft, including management. So I'm sure that effort played a role in the executive decision to not end VFP after 8.0.