>Does that mean that we will no longer be able to have a French IDE for VFP7, like we can get with VFP6?

If you have a French runtime, you can have a French IDE. The difference is just a resource file, such as VFP7ENU.DLL. The resource file is where VFP gets all of its strings. Change the OS regional settings to French, fire up VFP, and watch in amazement as it automagically changes to French.