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>Agreed that any company can decide to no longer sell a product that is losing money. MS sells each of the tools currently in Visual Studio seperately or bundled together. I purchased Visual Studio, not just VFP - because it was my intention to learn the other languages (specifically VB) as well. However, the vast majority of my work to date has been in VFP. How would MS be able to determine if VFP is losing or making money based on the way they bundle the software? Do they assume that everyone who purchases Visual Studio does so because they are VB or VC++ progammers?
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>I am sure they have cost-accounting down to a science at MS. They know. MS did not get this big by not knowing...

Please explain this to me - how they know. How does MS know that in the last year I have been involved in the development of four projects, three in VFP, the other in VB. I'd be very interested to know how MS knows this - so please enlighten me.