So maybe there was a *bit* of lee-way :-}

General Availability Date : 22/12/2004
Mainstream Support Retired : 12/01/2010

>VFP didn't have any special treatment in this area. As with all development tools, the mainstream support is retired 5 years from the date of the product release. The extended support is retired after 5 more years.
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>>Thank you very much for the response.
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>>Am I wrong in my recollection that there had been an earlier date for the end of support, but that date was delayed?
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>>>http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?p1=7992