>>I heard the other day again..... that Microsoft is abandoning Visual Foxpro and has no plans to further the product past version 7.0. Is there truth to this and if so why ?

>There's a rumour method in the MS VFP application framework that
>triggers this rumour every 12 weeks, to keep everyone in this group
>on their toes. It's working since M$ purchased Fox and has survived
>5 major new versions of Fox.

Hi Eylon.

In 2.6 that was the rumor function (see below). They converted this to a method with the advent of VFP3. :-)

Syntax: rumor()

Returns:

character

rumor() pads the character string it returns with half truths and misinformation.