>>And, on the other hand, micro$oft will probably never put in a strong effort to support "not invented here" tools.
>I'm sure that attitude will change in the near future - as they lose market share! If they don't move to where the developers are - they'll be history.
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>>I myself can't justify not using all the fox and MS stuff I've learned to make that drastic a decision to leave the Windows environment.
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>But can you afford not move off MS stuff! The world is changing very fast with the web, mobile devices, etc.. None of which I can say MS is the market leader. If fact, if not for Word, and the Windows (the OS and only because of history) I doubt MS would be a player in today's fast changing software environment. BTW if you want use what you learned using VFP - take a good look at python.
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>I realized the above a long time ago. There is no reason to spend money on Word, and there is no reason to spend money on Windows. And as the world of software continues to change corp. america will realize it. And it will a hard sell for MS to suggest that a propriety platform is the way to go.
>Johnf

You mean Linux will take over the desktop as promised and predicted for over a decade. Gee.

I do enjoy playing with buggy, non-standard, miserably documented (if at all), cryptically controlled, unsupported stuff once in a great while. It makes me remember why I use Windows exclusively for servers and desktop.

My last run with Ubuntu 11.something server lasted a few days back in November before I reformatted the server with Windows and achieved everything I tried to do with Linux in less than an hour.

If I had been on the clock doing it the cost difference in setup would have been easily over $1000 for a simple setup.