VFP is clearly not strategic for MS, it is a niche product only. It also already has a strong community (vis-a-vis its size).
.Net is strategic, and does not yet have a community with breadth and depth. Two reasons for MS to "seed" .Net user groups.
MS can do anything it wants with its US$40B in the bank. If they want to fund user group startups, fine. The only problem I have with what you have observed is if, indeed, MS is
reducing VFP support to community/user groups while increasing .Net's. That is clearly unfair to VFP.
It might also be argued that if such funding goes on long term (probably longer than 6 months, and certainly more than a year) then it is no longer "seeding", it's increased support. In a perfect world it would be nice if such VFP support could also be proportionally increased, but again, MS is under no obligation to do so. They probably view it something like this:
X$MoreCommunityFunding = Y New VFP Users
X$MoreCommunityFunding = 10Y New .Net Users
Regards. Al
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