>It's been considered, years ago. But now that there is no Fox team and no more updates, it won't happen.
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>>I wonder if Microsoft would ever consider just compiling VFP to 64-bit? They wouldn't necessarily have to release the source.
>>Even though the advantages would be small (at least for now), perception is everything and people perceive VFP being stuck in 32-bit land.
>>PHP has 64 bit versions floating around, although nothing official apparently. But just the fact that they have this option seems important.
It's a pity - Calvin Hsia could probably do it in a day or a weekend. Really, if MS thought about it, it would be helping developers stay on Windows by improving a Windows tool and without that much effort really. I see that COM (and I think even ASP Classic!) is in 64-bit versions sot it's not like they didn't do it for other legacy technologies.