>John,
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>I completely agree with you. Marketing never existed. The best marketing for VFP has been that it's part of VS. It allowed me to use VFP on projects because the customer owned the product.
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>The only valid reason IMHO is that VFP7 could be released earlier. But then it might be the last...

But... if it launches with the rest, the team has plenty of time to receive beta feedback and maybe add a couple more goodies. Can you imagine how good it would be to have some extra months just for debugging?!