>FREE OFFER FOR WINDOWS NT WORKSTATION 4.0, BACKOFFICE
>SERVER 4.0
>Get the power, reliability and security you need - FREE.
>For a limited time, Web developers can get a free Developer
>Edition of Windows NT Workstation 4.0 when they buy the
>Professional Editions of Visual Basic, Visual C++ or Visual
>Studio (which includes Visual J++ and Visual InterDev). If
>the Enterprise Editions of these same products are
>purchased, Web developers can get a free Developer Edition
>of BackOffice Server, 4.0 (which includes NT Server).
>Developer Editions include the full feature set with a
>development and testing license; the BackOffice license is
>limited to 10 simultaneous connections. For more
>information go to
>https://vipromo.microsoft.com/vip_country.asp .

I think this is mainly to dump VB, VC, VStudio boxes sitting in warehouses before gearing up for the new versions....technically, they didn't forget VFP because it's part of VStudio.....