>I paid full price for my WP7.
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>Why do you think it isn't catching on? Because it has small market share? Millions of people were locked into iPhone and Android and Blackberry contracts when WP7 was released. As time goes on, more will move to WP7 as their contracts expire. Also, WP7 is not available on Verizon, which is the largest US carrier. And the Nokia deal will make a big impact.
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>>Really? They don't seem to be catching on? I guess beside MS employees and MVPs that probably got those for free (Cheerleaders) I don't know many persons that are using them.

Haha I was sure I'd get an MVP reacting to my reply :-)

I was just teasing. I don't care how MS markets their phone.

One of the reasons why I don't want a phone from MS is that I'm not sure if I can really trust them anymore. Open Source really seems like the way to go. I don't want to be tied more and more to MS. I can still make a living with VFP. In the meantime I look at .net and hope that eventually they'll get it.

There's a very interesting product called WinDev. I saw a demonstration a while back and I was very impressed. 4th generation development. It's like MS never heard about 4th generation development.

Buuuut recently I saw a demo of Light Switch and it's so lame as it is right now.

One of the things that really get to me is that not only do they make development tools but they are my direct competitors as consultants. Let's do some role playing. Let's pretend I'm MS. Here's my way of thinking. I'll compete with my developers customers by doing consulting. I'll tell them and pretend that they have all the best tools in their hands to do the best applications but in fact I will have all the tools to do fast development while they still have to figure out how to do even basic stuff. And to make things even funnier I'll release new versions of everything and/or new tools so fast they won't even be able to really know what's happening. from time to time we'll tell them that something is obsolete so they'll practically be in rewrite mode perpetually. End of role playing.

I'm sure that if I thought about that approach someone withing MS also thought about it.