Markus,

What i've read from a dutch link (I do not have the exact link here), that hotfixes under certain conditions will be available to companies having some kind of agreement with Microsoft until 2015.

I certainly would think so that those hotfixes if applicable for all VFP9 developers it would go publically. After all could you explain what happened with the FWP 2.6 fix for 'fast' pentium. The product was totally unsupported by then.

IOW, I have serious doubts of what has been claimed here.

Walter,





>>>>> Well I'd expect MS will release a SP or hotfix for every new OS that
>>>>> causes VFP to have serious issues, at least until 2015 or so.
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>>>No, that is not correct. Standard support only goes through 2009 (or January 12th of 2010 or something like that). In theory, Microsoft can issue fixes until then (although I would be somewhat surprised if they did), but during the extended phase (which goes to 2015) no service packs are released. Only security fixes, which VFP is very very unlikely to have.
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>>Can you back that up?? I cannot imagine that after 2009 if some serious issue pops up in VFP9 on a new OS, MS would not fix it. Like happened with FPW 2.6 where there were some issues with 'fast pentiums'. They eventually posted a fix for that. There are so many VFP applications out there that there would be a tremendous pressure on MS to fix the issue. I agree less serious issues would probably go unfixed, but I can't believe they would let all VFP applications die after 2009.
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>>Walter,
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>That is exactly what Microsoft has announced (and what we have been discussing here for the last few days).
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>The statements made at these URLs http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vfoxpro/bb308952.aspx and http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7992 say that there will be standard support till 2010 and extended support to 2015.
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>The definition of what this all means can be found here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];lifecycle
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>And yes, I remember FP2.6 and that whole situation too. But keep in mind that that was during a time where there was a Fox team and the whole product overall was still kicking and FoxPro in general was well supported and enhanced. So it probably wasn't that big a deal to have a fix. But past 2010, the situation will be (and probably already is) very different.
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