I'd also be curious to read questions and comments about this blog post. There were executive videos for VFP 7.0 and VFP 8.0, which helped perception at the time. I wrote over 90% of the text read in both those speeches, and are a bit ironic to reference now. http://cicorp.com/Foxpro/future.htm. For some reason the Ballmer WMV video download link doesn't work. I have the video, but it wouldn't be right for me to post it online, and it might be online somewhere else. But the transcript text is there, although it's not the same as hearing the audio of him saying at the end... "as we build a bigger, and better, and a more successful FoxPro developer community."

That video Steve Ballmer recorded, it was recorded in late October 2001. But it was originally scheduled to be recorded at 10:00am Pacific Time on September 11, 2001. I was suppose to then get the WMV file later that afternoon to show to FoxPro developer attendees at the Advisor VFP DevCon during the evening event at SeaWorld at the Orca/Shamu show in San Diego - all of which ended up being canceled obviously. This was never known at the time, because the video was not announced in advance.

>http://mashupx.com/blog/2010/12/09/visual-foxpro-strategy-at-microsoft/
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>I have no comment. And you?
>Read carefully please!