Hi Guy,

>At the time of [most?] prior releases of VFP, Microsoft had already discussed and shown public demos of certain features of the subsequent version of VFP that was "already in development." This was typically done at a DEVCON or similar conference. They were proud to show off things that were coming in a release that was way out in the future.
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While I won't disagree with the rest of your message, Ken did demo some possible productivity enhancements at Advisor DevCon. While these were relatively minor features, demos this early in the dev cycle for VFP 8 and 9 were minor as well.