>As a self-employed contractor I run into this dilemma all the time. In fact, tomorrow is my last day on a 12 month contract working on an application that was originally written in 2.0 DOS, run through the converter to Windows and then again to VFP. The version I was given as a starting point was in VFP 6 and a year later... it still is. The company has a MSDN Universal Subscription so cost is not the concern. It is still the operating system that is driving the decision. More than 50% of their users are still on Windows 95,98 or ME. And their customers have no intention of upgrading without a much more compelling reason.
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>And to emphasize my point, my next contract is upgrading an application used by the Elks Lodges to, you guessed it, VFP 6 for exactly the same reason. The large majority of their users are still running 95, 98, or ME.
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>I try to think of them as future customers that will upgrade... eventually.

Yeah, the situation seems similar in several companies ovewr here. It is interesting to note, though, that VFP 7 still supports Windows 95 (for the end-user; the developer needs Windows 98 or later).