>Is there any development in this area (either by HP or MicroSoft) to solve >this problem in the future.

My guess is that it's some common library that the printer manufacturers are using. I don't see anywhere that MSFT is telling devs to fiddle with the FPU. HP isn't the only one with this problem, Epson and Cannon drivers do this, too.

> How does VFP 7 work with those drivers ?

The same as 6.0 SP4. It's about as fixed as we're going to get it.