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If you want to kill a product you dont keep bringing out new versions, SP's, enhance the website, ask for case studies, etc, etc. You stop doing those things and go into maintenance mode asap. I think KenL and the VFP team do the best possible given the various business objectives and products of MS, and recognizing that VFP is not their main stream money spinner.
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You don't get it...

Better to be a VFP user and a MS customer than to be somebody elses customer. That Jos is the primary business objective. And by the way - unless you have not realized it - a signficant portion of VFP customers have actually become MSDN subscribers.

As for the case studies and the rest of it - look up the word placate...