>>There is no guarantee. While compatibility has always been high on the Windows feature list, at some point it will have to be sacrificed to move on. Seeing as almost no information about the successor to Vista is coming out of Microsoft, it's impossible to tell what level of compatibility will exist in the future.
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>>>(My apologies if this has been discussed already). Can somebody shed some light on just what it means that VFP will no longer be supported after 2015? In particular, when the product is no longer "supported", does it mean that Microsoft gives itself license for incompatibility? Is MS saying that beyond 2015, it might produce versions of Windows no longer compatible with existing VFP apps, so that apps created today with VFP8 or VFP9 would essentially no longer be usable?
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>Has anyone tried running VFP under any of the windows emulators in Linux?

Haven't tried it yet, but don't see why it shouldn't work just fine. I would recommend VMWare as the virtual machine (VMWare Server is free and allows you to create your own Virtual Machines (in this case, some flavor of Windows with FoxPro).

I will try this out soon myself and see how it goes.

>I think MS will eventually self destruct and we'll all be looking for another OS. Google perhaps.

There are lots of very good linux distros out there to try out and see what fits your bill.

Check out www.distrowatch.com and look them over.

Tommy