>don't these feature additions seem rather 'superficial' ?
>any new hard core features that will radically change/improve the product?
>
>for example, COM object building in VFP 5...
>The service pack for VFP 6 allowing multiple instances of objects to process methods concurrently on multiple threads...
>intellisense in VFP 7 ...
>
>anything like these previous changes planned for VFP 8?

The main new features of Toledo are not being discussed publicly at this time. There are many new great features being developed for Toledo currently under non-dislosure. Please do not judge what the overall feature set of Toledo will be by reviewing the short summary of a few new features that have been disclosed so far.