>Hogwash Win 8 is not that difficult to use. It's also more secure than Win7. Go with Win8 Pro. It supports Hyper-V for virtual machines. And always 64 bit now.

Embolded part debatable - more security fixes needed/encountered last year for W8. I see that as settling down/shaking out early bugs in an inherently more secure system and also argue for W8, but would not state it this way.

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>Will your applications work? There's no way to know. It depends on how they were written. Doug Hennig has an article or two about differences.
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>>I currently have an XP, so I'll be buying a new pc very quickly. I've been advised to go to Win 7 instead of Win 8 as it's easier to learn.
>>I want to make sure however that all my old VFP .exes will run on 7. Are there any problems in that regard? Also, which version of 7 is recommended?
>>Home Premium? And what about 32 vs 64 bit? Any problem running the exes on either?
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>>Thanks,
>>Rich Murillo