has anyone found Microsoft's support of VFP to be immensely valuable anyhow? Ive always found solutions or workarounds to problems from the user community. by the time MS acknowledges the problem, gets a fix out then another one to fix the fix, Ive finished the app and onto another. I love VFP but with 9.0 SP2 i dont expect any more help from MS now or after 2014.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Arnold Sent: Tuesday, 8 December 2009 3:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NF] Shields up Ricardo, > It's very good to know there is a way around MS's plunders (blunders!), but > as Alan pointed out MS is in a position to dispense the death of a thousand > needles if it so chooses. > > MS made the decision to buy FoxPro, and then they made the decision to stop > further development. There's still one more Big Decision for them to make: > whether to kill it (one way or the other) or willingly keep it alive along > with Windows. > > We're not going to find much comfort in MS's handling of VFP so far, but > perhaps with Big Bill less involved, better judgement will prevail. After > all, VFP is a gold mine, and MS is going to need every resource it has to > face the future. While MS was enjoying it's heyday, IBM and friends haven't > been on vacation. See http://mainframe.solutionscenter.techweb.com/ > > > Bill > > Bill, I need some advice for a friend of mine. Her husband used to abuse her verbally, she stayed in the hope he'd change. He then started slapping her, but when I told her to leave him she said he'd had a lot of stress at work and that as soon as that was over he'd change. She's now been hospitalized a couple of times, yet she tells me that now that her husband's boss has resigned he'll be less stressed and "perhaps without so much stress, better judgement will pervail". Do you think I should back her decision and wish her luck? ------------------------------------- I think that I'm a tad more optimistic then you :) What happens with VFP after MS ends official support in 2014 is a big topic that will develop over time. At the least, I think it's in MS's interests not to do anything that breaks VFP and to fix problems discovered, for the life of Windows. At the most, MS would (should!) do something creative with VFP that alleviates all concerns about it's future. Didn't MS say a while ago, before VFP9, that there were 100,000 VFP developers? Even if the number is smaller, some developers create multiple apps, and who knows how many machines these apps are running on. Add it all up and this is a big deal and MS needs to resolve it wisely. Bill [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
