Craig...

Think about the first sentence in your response:

I'm not totally ruling this out, I just don't think it will happen.

If you don't think it will happen, are you not ruling it out????

>Having to rewrite the kernal is equivalent to a whole new product,

Craig... VFP 3.0 was rolled out 18 months after it was first discussed at the 1993 Devcon in Orlando.. MS has the people and the resoures to do this.... MS accomplishes quite a lot. However, I think that volume of work is dwarfed by what we don't know.

>Would people abandon VB? Some would, yes. But, VB would probably gain lots of new users too.
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I think very few people would abandon the product for gaining new features. In fact, few people dump a tool because of it. The failure to support some old features or some other shortcomming, sure. However folks don't dump tools for simply getting new features...