>>>I remember Ken Levy was said that like "making VFP 64 bit isn't an easy task..."
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>>But it was already done at least twice (eTecnologia and Christof), even though these projects weren't exactly finished - but, hey, these were small outfits or a single person. Microsoft could have done the same - they could just save as much money on lawyers or advertising in a day and invest some manpower into development instead. They just didn't want to do it.
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>That could/would have belongs to the past
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>I think the source code of vfp is such a mess that they never considered it

the move from fpd/fpw was under MS source control. If they alienate me by refactoring Office and Windoze GUI for reasons not making sense to me, they could have refactored their own sources to eliminate such messes ;-)