>Thanks for that.
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>Is there any particular reason that they are looking into VFP8 already? Do you think this is a good idea?

This is standard procedure. VFP7 is almost ready for release. The development team is starting on VFP8. They could take a year or more just for planning and testing different things before going to beta.

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>When most people are using VFP7 when it's released, we might be thinking about 8 in the back of our minds and 7 won't seem like a big deal.
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>Unless of course 8 won't be released for some years now.

We have no way of knowing when MS plans to release VFP8. I don't worry about that. I'll be using VFP7 and getting good results with it.