There is no doubt about Robert Green's support for VFP as well as some other people at MS. However, you should read message # 145991 from a few days ago regarding his response to a similar question about the Internet Expo.

It seems that there is now a "canned" response (and not only from Robert Green)to our questions and complaints about VFP being represented in trade shows and the like. It goes something like this: [ We are giving the people what they want - they are not attending this event to learn about VFP, so it is not being represented ].

This is a classic "circular reference" or "self-fulfilling prophecy" type situation. It goes something like this:

lack of VFP advertising -> people don't know about VFP -> people don't use VFP -> lack of VFP promotion

Don't kid yourself. MS has the power and resources to "dictate" markets - they do it all the time.

Most of the promoting of VFP is targeted at us. Robert Green is great at "grass-roots" promoting. However, there is an obvious lack of support at a higher level and I really don't think he has much to say about it.