The problem (for us) with MS is that they are not going to aggressively market any development tool (like VFP) that eats into marketshare for their precious little VB. VB is astoundingly mediocre or lacking entirely in areas that VFP excels at: data access, visual objects (heck, ANY objects), inheritance, polymorphism, subclassing, etc...Not wanting to commit fraticide with their product lines, they appear rudderless in marketing and evangelism of VFP.

What they really need to do is position VFP as the alternative to Powerbuilder, Personal Oracle, and Delphi. Having worked with all three to one degree or another, I can state that VFP blows them away as a RAD tool and, for the most part, in stability.

My 2 cents, anyhow.