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>My guess ... they don't want to tick people off and lose them to a non-MS product. I think they will just slowly hope that VFP people begin to attrition away to SQL and then VB or whatever is next up their sleeve ....
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>Also .... and this is a bit of a turn of this thread ... but I firnly believe we will see OOP in all it's glory in VB (or it's descendant) within the next year or two ... so we will lose that advantage.

I doubt that will ever happen. First, it would require a complete rewrite of VB. Second, MS has seen Fox programmers struggle with OOP and aren't about to rock the boat with VB.