During my brief tenure as a Test contractor in the VFP group near about the time of VFP6/7 I recall having the strangest conversation with Ricardo Wenger where he was telling me that the purpose of the next version of VFP was to help move VFP developers to VB.

If you really want VFP developers to move to VB or .NET you simply stop making VFP. How does making a new version ease the effort? And really when you consider how crappy VB was compared to VFP why would anyone want to migrate to that?

In fact, Ken, you and everybody in the VFP group made it harder to move to .NET with the release of VFP8 and especially VFP9 because they are such solid and complete products. That's a compliment and not a criticism, btw.