I just received today "Microsoft Tech*Ed 98" slick bulletin for the conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

VFP is mentioned one time, on page 33 under 8-322 "Move existing FoxPro application to the web . . .". It is not mentioned anywhere else! Not even in the database area (Pages 20 - 23). Now, if someone wants to respond by saying they mention "Visual Studio" then I say "Hogwash!". VB and VC++ are mentioned all over the place.

I am a long-time FPDOS, FPWIN, VFP contract programmer. I don't care what Robert Green says or anyone else at Microsoft, the proof is in the advertising and the conferences. I attended an event here in Dallas, TX last year and VFP was a passing thought.

What the BS is going on? I have used PowerBuilder and found major engine problems. I have found VFP to be THE BEST 32BIT TOOL ON THE MARKET. Obviously, MS is so full of themselves, they do not even know what they own.

Not to provoke my VFP compadres, but this is just too much. Robert, if you truly do read this web site - kick Gates in the rear and awaken him to the Power of VFP! I have just had to take a "mainframe" contract because of the decline in the FoxPro marketplace. Good grief! I will next have to take a PowerBuilder contract because Sybase markets it's best software! AND VB SUCKS - no oop.

I truly believe Gates is the "James Taggart" of "Fountainhead".

What a waste of a superior, beautifully engineered and constructed product.

I'll shut up now and start brushing up on Powerbuilder, a product several notches (or many) below VFP.