>>Slightly off-topic, FoxPro 2.6 is now listed on the Support Obsolescence Policy page at Microsoft. Within 6 months, it will no longer be supported.
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>That's good to know! Does that apply just to FPDOS, or to FPW 2.6 as well?

All of the 2.6 editions, including Unix.

>Do you know if this will have any effect on
>the language, specifically backwards compatibility commands and functions? I
>still think that some of the backwards compatibility items are at the heart of
>some problems making VFP a better player in the VS environment.

As pure speculation, I'd say not. I don't have any information one way or the other on it. What items did you have in mind, just out of curiosity? (Some day I'll figure out how to spell that word....)