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Ken Levy and Others

Ken emailed VFUG this in reply to a question on the VFUG ListServe about VFP's future:

There are 60,000 people that work at Microsoft world wide. Only one of those employees is responsible for the messaging of the Visual FoxPro product at Microsoft, and that is me. If anyone states they heard something about FoxPro's future or support from Microsoft and they don't reveal the exact source and can reference it, then that source should be considered completely invalid and not considered truthful nor accurate.

Microsoft has released Visual FoxPro 8.0 and is currently working on the next version of Visual FoxPro code named Europa. For more information about Visual FoxPro 8.0 including stand alone pricing information, refer to the announcement at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro.

There are currently no plans to have Europa be based on or use the Windows .NET Framework nor integrated into Visual Studio .NET. The plan for Europa is to be primarily based on FoxPro developer wish list feedback and remain a direct upgrade to Visual FoxPro 8.0 with backwards compatibility. The features and expected release date for Europa are not announced at this time.

We encourage developers and companies to obtain Visual FoxPro 8.0 through MSDN Subscriptions which includes, Visual FoxPro 6.0, 7.0, and 8.0 (full versions), Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Studio .NET, various versions of Windows, and more all near the same price as VFP 8.0 full version . Refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/prodinfo/levels.asp for more information about what is included in various MSDN Subscription levels. There is a free Visual FoxPro Toolkit for .NET and other related Visual FoxPro with Visual Studio .NET resources at Microsoft's GotDotNet.com developer site at http://gotdotnet.com/team/vfp.

Visual FoxPro 8.0 is supported by Microsoft until 2010 in the developer tools lifecycle support plan. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];LifeDevToolFam for more details.

Тем не менее несколько странно на все этом фоне звучит призыв Лес Пинтера переходить на .NET .
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