>Craig
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>>This is standard procedure. VFP7 is almost ready for release. The development team is starting on VFP8. They could take a year or more just for planning and testing different things before going to beta.
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>That's good. It shows that MS is looking ahead with VFP to the future (why didn't I spot that before!!!)
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>Going back to the old rumour about non-support - what exactly gave someone the "impression" in the first place, to start his rumour?
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>Thanks
>Kev

In addition to what Doug said, when VFP3 was released, it had an unmotivated Product Manager. Marketing was non-existant. MS publically admitted when VFP5 was released that they screwed up Fox marketing and were making it right. That's when they brought in Robert Green and David Lazar and they have made a big difference.

The other reason is at the same time, the Gartner Group said that FoxPro was dead.