>Rather than add fuel to the VFP & .Net fire, shouldn't Microsoft shift VFP to replace Access? What would the technical difficulties involve? What would be the benefits? What would be the downside?

This will NEVER happen. Mr. Levy made it pretty clear some time ago that almost no effort will be made to give whatsoever kind of advantage of VFP over anything else.

I'm sure that if QBasic would still be there that it would'nt be close to impossible to put good words in favor of VFP over QBasic.

I've been arguing for a long time over the marketing of VFP. Nothing happened over that and apparently nothing ever will. Still some persons at MS say that feedback is important. They never said that they'd respond to that feedback though <vbg>