>>Guess blocking out the Sun spoiled Apple too, though the current crop seems to be recovering somewhat. Now if only M$ could have made VFP biplatform....
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>They did - Windows NT and Windows 9x...
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>I've never been much of an Apple fan myself; OTOH, I'd kill for a VFP that ran in an XWindows environment on some ?nix flavors!

Once VFP implements the Windows controls that so many are clamoring for, it will be very hard to produce a multi-platform version. Of course Microsoft isn't going to produce a not Windows version, even though the source is still structured for multi-platform.