>>OK..I'll clarify this...it won't happen for some time.
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>So, you think it won't happen for some time since you think it would involve a total re-write of the product. i.e., you don't think MS has the resources to do this in a timely manner....

Of course they have resources...but just throwing resources at something doesn't mean it will happen...and we all know what happens if you throw too many resources at it.

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>>FP kernal was not rewritten. Big difference here.
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>Again, you comming up with the kernel argument. So, you are telling me that in reality, FPW 2.6 was better setup to receive OO than VB 6???? Is this the argument you are making here?

I guess that's what I'm saying.

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>VFP in reality as an xBase langauage with OO extensions....
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>Are you telling me that VB could not be a Basic language with OO extensions????

Of course it can...but there are things deep down in the kernal that prohibit inheritance as we know it.

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>I think it is time is here to stop resorting to "anecdotal" evidence in your argument Craig. Alot of people say what you are saying. Eventually, it becomes an urban myth. MS is a big company, as we all know. If MS wants to get something done, it will do so. How quickly did MS make the turn from casting the internet aside to being the dominate player????

But it didn't take a rewrite of the OS. I don't care how much MS wants to say IE is integrated into the OS. If that were true, then it wouldn't run on Mac, Win 3.x, etc. Basically they just put a new shell on top of things.

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>MS reaction to this not only stopped on a dime, it gave you 9-cents change.
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>So, will it take a long time. It might. But it has nothing to do with the "kernel" or anything else technolgically. You said it yourself, they did not rewrite the Fox kernel. FWIW, I don't know this to be true. I suspect it is, but have never heard anything offical. Regardless, if MS wants to do it, they will...

John, my sources are people on the Fox team at MS. I tend to believe them. The fact that they got OO, COM, etc. working at all is amazing considering the number of global variables that exists in the code. (This is almost word for word what I was told). Basically they took the FPW code and grafted in the OO stuff. That's what also allows VFP to have the amount of backward compatability that it has.

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