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>>Craig,
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>>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.
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>Please, give me some examples where MS has said this.
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>>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.
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>That is soooo off base here. MS is still pushing VFP and will continue it's life. I talk to members of the Fox team on a regular basis. We've seen postings here from folks on the Fox team. And, that Fox team is hiring new people...not replacements for people that left. These are new positions. Now, let's take a look at the other arguement. That this is a deception. That would mean the Fox team would be in on it. If it was a deception, what reasons would Ricardo, Robert, Randy, Mike, and others have to continue working on the team. If I knew my product was dead, I'd be looking for the first place to jump somewhere else. Sorry, but the evidence stacks up to say that Fox is alive.

Craig,

Buy a house plant and put it in an unlit closet. Then water it regularly and monitor it's gradual demise. Are you responsible for its death? When the ASPCP comes knocking at your door, do you think their going to buy the line "It wasn't my fault. I didn't do anything".

I didn't say VFP is dead, but I do think there's a serious problem here. Who's the one here who isn't facing reality, Craig? You still seem to be in the denial stage. If I'm being too much of an alarmist, what harm is there in simply asking MS to do us one little favor, for their sake as well as ours?

Mike