VB is laced with legacy issues that make it, quite simply, a monster. VB is far more "stable", in the negative sense, than FPW ever was (or could be). Also, in 1999, VB has dozens of times the installed base that FPW had in '95 (or whenever the FPW-VFP transition was).

It's a demonstrably a completely different situation. The notion that they can put inheritance and containership into VB just because they did it with apparent ease with VFP is completely (excuse the expression) laughable.

Two completely different codebases, two completely different metatdata structures, and an order of magnitude difference in legacy issues (installed base and backward-compatible feature requirements)

Not to say they won't do it. But if it were the slam dunk you allude to, it would have happened sometime back in the 20th century for sure.

Just my 2 cents.

Andre