Ken Levy always said they knew the number through their market research. He often said 100,000 VFP users.

>Yep exactly. WHY it didn't sell is a whole different thing. Plus I think it must be hard for MS to even know how many people were actually using it. Lot of developers got VFP with MSDN subscription or as part of dev studio - so maybe no one used VFP as part of dev studio - maybe some did - but no real way to tell. VFP was always different animal than rest of dev studio - the controls for the screens are all different than all the others and the way it paints forms etc etc etc. It just didn't fit in with everything else so of course they had to give it the ax. X-Base environment was dying prior to death of VFP too so all these things together and it's just not worth it to MS to keep it alive.