It's a moot point now but that's not exactly true. VFP had object orientation before VB did, for example. It wasn't until VFP was dropped from Visual Studio -- a move largely driven by the VFP developer community, BTW -- that it began to fall behind other MS developer tools.

>Couldn't be VFP. Was allways several years behind the rest of Windows. Just search the UT for "black hole".
>I don't argue about anything else. And I do not vote for a company known for decades for vaporware and hypes. Not if I can avoid it.
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>>I know for a fact that Microsoft listens to developers and changes products based on those requests. I've been in meetings with the Microsoft teams where things were requested, then later they show up in the product.
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>>>Developer fee is per year, but they seem to respond to developer wishes, what is more then you get from M$.
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>>>Lutz