Or perhaps some developers are still holding on to old technology (VFP for example) because what could/should be considered new technology is already old technology. (.net for example). Who knows perhaps MS is close to announcing the replacement for .net. So those hanging on to VFP (or whatever) didn't have to suffer learning something what they didn't absolutely needed. Or something that they could hold on to just enough to not being forced to go the .net way.

Or better while resisting the temptation to jump too soon to .net, serious alternatives could be considered. I went to a WinDev demonstration recently and I was very impressed. I was happy to see that I'm not the only one to think that developers shouldn't do that much typing. I am not that thrilled when I go to .net meeting and see all that XAML one has to type before things look good.

It should be about time now that MS releases the new (Now we really have a good development environment) to the masses. This way they'll get tons of cash because what we used before is not good anymore and we will have to re-engineer those apps.

I can't wait to see that new development environment designed entirely for Cloud development. You say (or think) .net can do it. Perhaps too naive. I'm sure MS has something coming for that. But they won't probably release too soon. They have to make sure that others waste a lot of time with their old tools and then MS will release it. Don't forget that MS is also doing consulting. Cashing on all sides all the time.

Like John Lennon sang "I'm just watching the wheels go round and round..."

;-)

>>I am 100% certain that you are wrong.
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>And I'm 100% *you* are right <bg>
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>Between this kind of stuff and all the hoo ha over finding "foxlike" converters, extenders, compilers etc I am astounded at the sheer amount of energy that goes into evaluating, testing, reading about etc ways to think one is going to keep doing what one did 15 years ago. If half the energy were just invested in learning .NET, Java or pretty much anything that we know works, millions are using and is here to stay, one could just move on and go back to solving business problems (profitably) with software. I only got serious about .NET two or three years ago but I can honestly say I can do more, faster and am having more fun than I ever did in VFP. I get continuing to use Fox as one always did if the boss requires it, you have to maintain your old stuff etc (I do that too) but if it involves learning *anything* new, I think the investment of time is better put into something - well, new. <s> (and I know you agree with all this and have taken a similar approach)
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>>>For me it sounds like Microsoft intends not to kill VFP, but sells it in the pack as a tool for beginners.
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>>>(even that in fact it's not a tool for beginners)
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>>>It could be a way to continue marketing the tool without implications to what they call top line tools
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>>>Could I be right or sounds crazy ?
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>>>Moises