>Digression: One great thing about MS is their commitment to backward compatibility. If a Fox 2.6 DOS application can run well under Windows 7, VFP apps should be able to run fine under Windows 8/10/11/12... This is one beef I've had with Apple, by the way. Apple has regularly and unceremoniously cut its ties to the past with major OS upgrades that absolutely and totally killed applications written for the previous OS. This happened with Fox/Mac when Apple released OS9. OS 9 compatible programs choked, for the most part, with OS X. Of course, the other side of the coin is that because Apple did this they could move their OS forward in ways that would have been impossible had they tried to make new versions highly compatible with the previous ones. I think Vista is such a pig-dog partly because of backward compatibility layers.

There is definitely a lot of truth to that. I believe they have cut out a lot of backwards compatibility with Windows 7.