>While what your friend has done might be a perfectly acceptable response, it seems to me that rewarding a company who first punishes you with unacceptable product then ignores your tech support needs (and refuses to even create a Visual FoxPro specific thread on its user discussion board) is a waste of the greatest bit of power a software customer has. That of walking away.

Sounds like a variation on "Bait and Switch".

And Microsoft's implicit endorsement of this product version also speaks volumes.