>I've always thought the tools displayed on that page were changed regularly so Microsoft could focus advertising on different tools periodically. If you click on the quick catalog dropdown, VFP7 is there with the rest of the development tools-both alphabetically as well as under new releases. However, it would be nice if Microsoft put some energy into advertising VFP like it did its other products! It still seems today like Msft is only putting 'just enough energy into keeping VFP around' as to pacify the many developers and businesses that use it (including the govt by the way). I wonder what would happen with VFP if it was every REALLY advertised and promoted?

Advertising VFP would not result in any significant increaase in sales/usage of VFP, most VFP developers should know that. How does an add for VFP get an existing developer using another product to use VFP? As any company that stays in business, advertising is related to sales and profit. Companies that spend more money on advertising than they make on revenue go out of business (many .com companies are good examples of this). Having article on VFP in magazines such as MSDN like the October issue go much farther for VFP usage and sales than any advertising, and other types of VFP awareness.