>>>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? I think MS will eventually self destruct and we'll all be looking for another OS. Google perhaps.
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>Oh really? Please describe the developer tools and operating systems offered by Google. Take your time <g>.

Well now, I certainly don't claim any level of expertise here (notice the word "perhaps") but I have seen many news references to Google being a potential threat to MS. I suppose it would depend on what arena you want to discuss, OS, Office, Internet, etc. AOL was also mentioned at one time although I think they have already mostly self destructed. If I had to bet I'd be looking at the open source community, linux et. al.