>>Robert Green told me.
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>Cool.
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>It would be interesting to know how their strategy of how they are going to accomplish this - the localization of globals or what. :)
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>Hopefully, we will get a trimmed down runtime for COM.

Don't count on it.

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>Also, it would be nice to have a "relatively-legacy-free" runtime for EXEs. Still can't figure out why properties like ZoomBox still exist - thought that VFP no longer supports the MAC.
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>With a small runtime, Microsoft could (theoretically) ship the VFP runtime with the operating system. Ha, if they did that then I would take back all the nasty things I've said about them.

VB runtime would ship with the OS long before the VFP runtime...and that doesn't happen. Don't count on this either.

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>-Jeff