>>Having good looking girls and guys promote products of every type imaginable is rampant throughout the western world. Every product from shampoo to cars to houses to alcoholic beverages makes use of what society deems are good looking people. Like cars much? Like Corvette, Lamborghini, Ferrari, BMW, Audi, Jaguar, ... Ever been to a car show? http://tinyurl.com/nslrtrr . France is no exception to this. It is hypocritical to call PC Soft out on it all the time but think it's OK to look at an advert for coffee, or travel, or movies, etc. and not comment.
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>>In their latest brochures they have toned down the use of models (guys and girls) to just a few here and there. Nothing extraordinary. It's amazing, when MS didn't market VFP it was endless complaints from the community. Now a company produces a state of the art product (which would be VFP 20 if it was still going), releases new versions every year, produces marketing materials, brochures, videos, interviews, website, free trials, etc., etc., and still we complaining. If we are all so clever with marketing maybe we should become marketers rather than programmers.
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>>Yeah, Microsoft never uses pretty girls to promote their products - only ugly trolls (see image attached).
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>I was just kidding :-)
>But you gotta admit, those brochures did seem unusual for software company.
>OTOH if product is good (which PC Dev WinDev seems to be) then none of this marketing mumbo jumbo really matters.
>Down the line, good product is ALL that matters. (Unless company is huge monopolist of course...)
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>I am actually bored to death with those usual BS artists soundbites like;
> '...Minimizing costs... Increasing productivity... lets developers/users focus on... instead of... blah...'
>and all those highly polished websites contents which say everything and nothing at the same time for most part.
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>This one was bit over the top, but at least colorful. :-))

I'm actually so tired of this endless fixation on the marketing BS. Who cares. Has any one of the complainers ever wondered whether perhaps PC Soft keep doing it because they get more positive feedback about it than negative feedback? That it might actually be achieving the objectives of their marketing department? Ever consider that? Who knows?

There are a handful of complainers but the rest of the community say nothing. And yet PC Soft count many leading companies as their clients as well as tens of thousands of smaller dev-shops. The product is awesome and, imho, the fastest route for VFP programmers to move into an incredible RAD environment familiar of VFP style project development.

For me, working with WinDev has brought back the excitement I remember of using dBase, Clipper, VFP 2.6, and VFP 3. It's become fun to develop new things and experiment with new tech and ideas easily. They claim you will be 10x faster ... OK, maybe only if you come from C background :) But from VFP background I am sure you will be 5x faster. And I have hardly even delved into what it all offers truth be told.