> > Maybe I don't understand the problem. (And I'm being honest about this > without the intention of flaming). > > Are you saying that Microsoft is continually adding features to the product > and dropping O/S's which makes it harder for you to do business? > > I also do a lot of side work and continually have to switch between FP2, > FPW2.6, VFP3.0, VFP3.0 Mac, VB3, VB4, Delphi 1.0, Delphi 2.0 (Yes, I use > whatever tool it takes no matter what company produces it <g> ). This to > me, is not the software companies fault, but more along the lines of > companies having various tastes and budgets, so us lowly developers have to > cater to them. > > IMHHO, Microsoft is driven by the Market. We've seen this for years now. As > computer hardware manufacturer's create better and faster machines (I buy > one about every 6 to 10 months), software developers have to do the same > (although the faster part, I might have to disagree <g> ). If Microsoft > decides to release a product that bombs, they don't try to push it on > people, they drop it. (Ummm... Bob for instance?) And if they attempt to > drop a product, and people react negatively, they keep it (Ummm..VFP?) > > It seems to me that people complain because they have to keep up with > software technology all the time. I think its a good tradeoff between time > spent learning new things and the profits that are achieved by being > "ahead of the game". > > Does any of this make sense or have I totally confused everyone? (Sorry, > it's Saturday and my brain refuses to think until after 12PM) > > -= Ken =- Ken, It is difficult for me to sustain this oecumenical tone my colleagues and yourself seem to adopt. Mind you, please consider this my problem rather than yours! What I am curious about is why Foxpro was not 'visualised' earlier in place of FPW26. I would expect that a kind of VB for xBase would have been possible say by 1993-4. Foxpro was a very hot product then. And by approaching this matter in an incremental way, the learning curve would have been flatter and less people would have been discouraged, and most of us would have had an easier time making a living. Regards, Marc