Hank, not sure why MS would want or need to do anything with VFP. After years of damning with faint praise it'd cause confusion, just as their lurchings about for mobile devices are causing confusion at the moment.

FWIW I sincerely believed in 1995 that MS was going to market VFP properly as an awesome OO development system for SQL Server and 32-bit apps, since it was the only 4GL product they had did both at that point. I was disappointed and came to realize that hoping for something to happen on rational grounds is not a predictor in this crazy old world. ;-) In 2010 I still see no reason why they'd do anythig for VFP. Not that I care so much: most of my VFP apps now are C++ dlls with a notional VFP wrapper. It seems that C++ remains acceptable and generally is left alone by critics.