>Keeping in the past is what is killing VFP. TechEd with no VFP sessions >demonstrates a lack of commitment of VFP.

I don't think so. No more versions of VFP would demonstrate MS's lack of commitment to VFP.
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Your statements have too much speculation. When you spoke at TechEd did you speak to a bunch of empty chairs?

I beg to differ. I have been there. And yes, there were a lot of empty chairs. I only had 30 or so people in my session.

>It is MSFT that has to support VFP first. Build it and we will come.

Then where the hell was everybody last year or the year before that. How about DevDays. Those attendence numbers for VFP suck too.
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Not everyone can make it to DevCon and TechEd might be closer and better timed for some people.

TechEd is not a substute for DevCon. Completely different types of events. Devcon is light years ahead of TechEd when it comes to technical content.