>I think VFP will be a viable tool until the 2010-2012 time frame. The next major revision of Windows will kill it. It will still run, Microsoft has promised that, but it won't look like a modern development tool.

I know companies that are still proudly using Fox 2.6 and that was released in what? 1993?

I think if Microsoft releases another operating system that breaks so many applications, it will kill Windows.

And what does a modern development tool look like? VS2005? It looks cool, but it sux trying to do the simplest tasks. Why does it take 90-200 seconds for the help file to come up when I hit F1? Or why is it that when I double click on a .H file in Windows explorer it takes 5 mins for VS2005 to display it?