>>My main point is that it's been a long time since we saw a breakthrough improvement in the Fox. I don't know how far back you go, but I'll recall my impressions:
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>VFP 7.0 is the first Microsoft developer tool to ship with full XML Web services support integrated into intellisense, which includes SOAP client and WSDL server generation. VFP 7.0 is the only MS product to have full extensibile IntelliSense, something that no other MS product has and is a major breakthrough.
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>>- VFP7 (which I don't own yet) - Intellisense looks "cool" but it isn't a language enhancement. That and improved Web support can't really be considered breakthroughs if they are already present in other products and we're just playing catch-up.
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>VFP 7.0 has the most advanced IntelliSense engine of any MS product, and that will remain the case even after Visual Studio .NET is released. There are over 50 new commands and function additions/enhancements in VFP 7.0.

Intellisense is not a language enhancement. Code written with it is no different from code written without it and runs no faster. It is not visible to the end-user and has no effect on their eXPerience < g >. Compared to improvements in earlier versions of Fox there's no way I can consider it a "major breakthrough".

It is a programmer amplification tool - if you write good code, you write it faster. If you write bad code, you write it faster.

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>About upgrades. What I said at DevCon is that the Fox community can help Microsoft (the Fox team) in upgrading to VFP 7.0. Sometimes people wait a while to upgrade but we feel that VFP 7.0 is a product that is ready for upgrading now with the great new features, great stability, etc. There are lots of new marketing efforts around VFP going on at Microsoft now. They keynote video/audio from DevCon last week was recorded and will be posted on the http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro web site soon.

Some people have chosen to take remarks like this and interpret them as MS saying, "Upgrade/Purchase NOW or the future of Fox is jeopardized". I resent people trying to make me feel guilty about not upgrading yet.

As you well know, if VFP7 sells like hotcakes the Dev team and your beefed up marketing efforts can take full credit. OTOH if it flops you (MS) will be solely responsible.