JVP

>>The only thing that makes me different is that I have the temerity to say it - as reckless as that may seem.

No, you're the only one who prefixes trite "statements of the obvious" with drum rolls and odious commentary to excite dissent so you can pretend that everybody disagrees with "the Guru".

Here is a test: could anybody who disagrees that "VFP is not a recognised development tool" please reply to me now. Could anybody who disagrees that "VFP is not a widely used development tool" please reply. If there is anybody here who cannot see that these reasons alone might be a reason for this company to choose dotNET over VFP, please reply.

My expectation is that these is general agreement/understanding of these issues, but people are upset because, as you point out, MS is no longer pretending that "the best is yet to come" or any of that other blather; MS is openly promoting replacement of VFP with cool new stuff. We all know that many MS familiars have been advocating this for ages, but I think some people are dismayed to be confronted by such a gratuitous MS smack.

The community will get through this as we have so many times before. In the meantime I guess we have to put up with people saying "I told you so!" and all the rest of it, as if we could not see it for ourselves.

This community is sort of like people building homes on the slope of Mt Vesuvius; we know it might erupt, but we analyse the risks and decide the benefits outweigh them. Meanwhile various gurus and prophets go around saying "the end is nigh!" and the rest of it, then screaming "I told you so!" when there is a little tremor, implying that nobody else knew it might happen rather than that people took the risk.