>>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.
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>I know companies that are still proudly using Fox 2.6 and that was released in what? 1993?
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>I think if Microsoft releases another operating system that breaks so many applications, it will kill Windows.
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>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?

Because Fox's help file has a small command set; .net has 14,000 classes with 75,000 methods which would by definition take longer to load. The VS2005 editor can handle multiple languages and multiple development platforms. Edit and compile a c++, c# and VB file in the same project.. try that with he fox editor!

Modern editors are going to be platforms that make programming easier which VS2005 does by leaps and bounds over the fox editor.

As a side note, there is a setting in the VS2005 editor which controls how help is searched for. By default it will attempt to search the web, then the local system. You have to configure how you want it to search. If you eliminate the web search first, it displays rapidly.