>My concern is MS deprecating something in newer versions of Windows that is required by VFP. Back in '05 when Vista came out the SMB2 bug came up and has never really been fixed. MS didn't care about VFP then, it cares even less now.

I believe VFP was still being supported in 2005, even being sold by MS. The SMB bug affected all systems that used the same database model such as Access, Paradox, dBase, and that whole family of database tools. I think perhaps SMB was harder to fix than we might know? Anyway, it shows that really anything can happen at an OS level to break things and it might or might not get fixed, and may not just affect EOL products. Having said that, I think it advisable to any developer to look at other dev-tools if for no other reason than that modern/current tools offer such great developer productivity.