>I hope you are right!!! But I'm wondering, just because foxbase and foxpro2x apps still work in WinXP, has MSFT made a commitment to keep the OS compatible with them, or have users just been lucky so far? Imagine how we all might feel in 2013 if suddenly MSFT announced:
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>"Oh, by the way, it looks like the new architecture we'll use in Win2015 will break all VFP apps. Sorry. But nothing we can do about it. Has to do with some unusual API implementations, deep under the hood, that only our VFP development team did. We suggest you start migrating to .NET and SQL Server."
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>I would like to know that MSFT is absoultely committed to keeping future versions of Windows compatible with today's VFP apps for the next 25 years or more.

Well I think we were lucky. There is no guarantee for such a commitment. I think you'd need to change anyway. 25 years is almost the same period from foxbase to VFP9. There are foxbase applications still in use but seriously how many out of the total.
I think to survive everyone should take the pain at some point.
Cetin