>Unless you can show me where the serious efforts are that promote VFP in a signifcant fashion to the outside world, the second sentence is true.

VFP advertisements in CoDe magazine for one. I pick up the CoDe thats closest to me (looks like Nov/Dec 2001) and there is not a single VFP article, however, the first two pages are a big advertisment for VFP 7.0. An an effort to promote VFP in a signifcant fashion to the outside world.

>These efforts are targeted at the current customer base, not to people that do not use the product.

Looks like you'll have to give up this arugument based on the above evidence. Hmmm, doesn't leave you with much, huh?

>Given the choice, MS would like to see new customers and new projects adopt dotNET.

Given the chioce, MS would rather see Word users than Works users. XP Pro users than XP Home users. Outlook users than Outlook Express users. C# users than VC++ users or JScript.NET users. Whats your point?

>When I say dotNET, I mean to imply VS .NET. I will be sure to clarify this in the future.

You see Visual Studio .NET ads on TV? I don't watch TV but I find that hard to believe. All the ads I have seen are simply for the .NET intiative. You can't confuse marketing campaigns between a wide spreading intiative and a single product.

>And fwiw, the real platform that counts is Windows...

Windows and .NET will be one in the same.