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I do not understand this message. What is the source of the information and what exactly was said? The comment is too generalized. You can just read the content on http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro to see that any comments about Microsoft not supporting Visual FoxPro are false.
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Hi Ken,

The comment is no more generalized than MS saying that the current version of Fox will be supported until 2010. As to the source, you have to admit that on MS sites - with the vfoxpro site being the one noteable exception - there is no mention of Fox. In the one recent case study - Fox was pretty much put off as being irrelevant and not being an acceptable platform on which to develop applications. While that explicit message was quashed, several things hold true:

1. The IMPLIED message from MS is still that Fox is being phased out - although your explicit action with respect to the case study contradicts this.

2. The case study - in all materal respects - says the same thing - just in softer language.

Ken - what is the bottom line answer to this question: A MS customer has a VFP 6/7 app that they wish to update. They wish to migrate their data store to SQL Server and they wish to implement aspects of the web. Also, long term support for their app-dev platform is a concern. The support I am referring to is MS as well third-partys. They want to be sure that there is a decent pool from which to pull talent. They are on the fence with going to Fox - because it is what they know - and going with .NET - because that is where MS is focused and where a good portion of MS developers are headed.

As a MSFTee - what would you suggest to this client? And no - just saying that they are free to make the choice that best suits them won't cut it.

The bottom line Ken - couldn't one reasonably infer that the overwhelming message from MSFT is simply this: "You should be in the managed code sandbox." Since Fox is not managed code - simple logic dictates that the implied message from MS is that you should not be in FoxPro?

I posit this to you in light of your question as to what the source could be for the prospective client's concern over Fox. You point to 1 page on the MS website. In the meantime, most people outside the Fox community probably never see that page. Your response to Dragan assumes that people Dragan is referring to actually see and read your message.