>VFP 7 was listed at the front page http://shop.microsoft.com for over the month. The changing nature of that page requires that other new products should be there too.

Yes. Look at the right side, under Best Sellers:
"Visual Basic 6.0 Professional - Create high-performance enterprise and Web-based applications". Nice, huh?

At the top right it also says:
"The Next Big Thing: Attend PDC and be first to get code and tools for XML Web services."

Excellent! I have to attend the PDC to get code and tools for Web Services?
Was I hallucinating or weren't we first getting tools in production to do just that? Sure VFP 7.0 is not a part of .Net but it creates and consumes XML Web Services. Does it qualify to beat the above mentioned statement? Sheesh!