>>When Steve Linux=AL KADA" Balmer gets the boot - understanding that everything MSFT has marketed since he took the helm makes the Titanic look like a successful crossing, what are the odds that MS will go back to it's roots and hopeful return to manufacturing Fox Pro.
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>That's a bit harsh on Ballmer, isn't it?
No

>Microsoft has been in everyone's sights for years and years and some of the competition, notably Google, is chipping away at them. >They still sell a bazillion copies of Windows.
I guess that explains the lackluster performance of their stock and why Apples market cap has surpassed MicroSoftee's!. All that overhead to sell a Ga-zillion copies of windows is eating into the bottom line!

>They still sell a bazillion copies of Office.
Open office is as good or better (and free). I still use 97! (so do a lot of people)

>Visual Studio is the dominant development platform. Hardly a Titanic.
It's free with most domain subscriptions

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>In any case, it would astound me if this meant anything at all in terms of resuscitating FoxPro. There have been people at Microsoft >wanting to kill it for 15 years, and they finally did.
I think the Redmond False Gurus Shrimp Buffet Festival attendee grid DBC programmer consultants killed VFP - too many people were writing slug spreadsheet apps, charging too much, taking to long and not delivering the requirement. Too many people were actually taking to heart the pulp from the pulpit at the the old DevConJob razz-ma-tazz!

But - No worries NET came out just in time for IBM and MS to set up offshore application development shops. Who cares about US programmers and US software cottage industries ? Microsoft don't.

You didn't fall for that "Microsoft Strategic Plan" mumbo jumbo gumbo - did you?

AFAIK Ballmer had nothing to do with that decision.
Bong water does that to a person.