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>>Craig,
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>>I can see the sense of ads in VBPJ, but why waste our limited budget on FPA and more preaching to the converted? However, any such ad campaign is rendered ineffectual by Microsoft's failure to take the simpler step of promoting VFP in their own widely circulated newsletters. The world has not failed to take note of this contradiction, but perhaps you have, or at least you seem to greatly underestimate its significance.
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>>Mike
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>Because every upgrade is a sale... and shows MS that current users are still interested in moving the product forward. Failure to upgrade says two things: 1) I don't need the new features or 2) I no longer use VFP. Neither of those is a good option in my book.

Craig,

If these VFP publications are doing their job, I should hope that they would be making the case for reasons to upgrade without the need for ads from MS. More to the point is that people contemplating upgrading are weighing the future of VFP and their careers as VFP programmers as the basis for making this decision. On that count, Microsoft's pumping money into telling one thing to the VFP community, while signalling something else to the rest of the world is counter-productive. It only serves to build the case that John Ryan is making that this appears to be a deliberate deception. That is what feeds the anger, and it's hurting all of us, MS as well.

Mike