>>>>>Avaaz petition is on the site is for the continuation of support VFP by Microsoft. The goal is 6,000 signatures, to then send the petition to Microsoft.
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>>>>>Follow the link:
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>>>>>https://secure.avaaz.org/en/petition/Microsoft_Visual_Foxpro_10/?ckipijb
>>>>>
>>>>>This is really happening?
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>>>>The train left the station some years ago, Sergio Microsoft made it very clear they would not be putting any more resources into FoxPro.
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>>>Mike,
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>>>Are you arguing Microsoft is lacking of any 'progressive insight'? I favor those who keep pushing and informing MS to re-evaluate the decission to halt any development on VFP. For sure if nobody is requesting them to reconsider, they will not.
>>>
>>>Koen
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>>Come on. M$ as dealt VFP like a stepchild all the time.
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>>The price/usefullness ratio was much to low. The only M$ products that where as good where MS Mouse at its time and now some Web CI.
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>I respectfully disagree. MSFT was locked in a fierce battle with Borland over the dBase market and they threw everything they had at it. Calvin Hsia? Eric Rudder. who was one of about 5 guys who reported directly to Bill Gates? They were very serious about it.

But this was a battle to eleminate dBase (and Borland) - not to win for FoxPro. One competitor in the languages gone, one for the databases. Fox was never forced the same way like any other MS dev tool.
Look how fast unix and mac versions where killed. How fast IDE / Help for foreign langs wher gone. It was never on level with the OS. MS has done all to win that battle, squeze what could be squezed quick'n'dirty and quit.

Or, for the folks you mention, how small the dev team was. (O.K. for all what one here about MS org, the last you like to be is an important project ... :) )

The MS Team has done a great tem under the radar. in my opinion.