>>I think what gives VFP safety is that the world is full to the brim with 32bit apps which must be supported or risk losing a gigantic number of users.
That's the same point Craig Boyd used to make in his keynote speeches. People use apps, not operating systems so an OS that isn't compatible with the apps, is a bad OS.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
