>Hi all,
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>My company finally decided to cut support for our customers still running in FoxPro DOS and UNIX and offer them our "windows" version (for a complete background please see thread 606882).
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>Now I need to write a nice and kind letter explaining them why we are doing this and how this is going to be for their advantage...
>I found already the "product support discountinuance" list in MS site but I need more ammunition.
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>There is any documentation out there on the benefits of going to actualized technology, the importance of keeping current, the perils of being stuck in the past or something like that?
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>TIA
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>Max

Just a couple of ideas...
->the Windows version is easier to use and easier to train new users on.
->If they are booting into DOS to use the program they won't have to do that anymore.
->Windows standard shortcuts.
->Sooner or later Microsoft will stop supporting DOS in their Windows Operating Systems. Do any of your clients use XP? I am curious if Fox 2.6 works in there.
->You can tell them that you can take advantage of new features in Visual FoxPro such as transactions to make the product more stable and easier to fix data if there is a crash.

We still use foxpro 2.6 but we also use Visual at my job...After using foxpro 2.6 for years they also say how much they love visual.