>Don't you think there would be he** to pay if MS decided to drop VFP -seems to me they are already having enough 'monoply' trouble that they would have a difficult time justifying a 'forced' move to another (most costly) platform by a couple hudred thousand (just a guess - I stand to be corrected) current VFP users?

I'm not sure what kind of trouble you are describing for MS. I'm not thinking that half a million developers would descend upon Redmond with torches and stones :). Perhaps a new Monty Python movie?

As far as legal action, I've never heard of a business getting in trouble for not creating a newer version of a product. MS is not going to walk in and take your copy of FoxPro off your desk.