>Having a list of features to be included in VFP8 would go along way in convincing management to budget for it next year instead of looking closely at other development languages instead.

You have less than 2 weeks to wait to get an answer to these types of questions. Unless it is something that Microsoft has only shown in public already (see UT conference reports/keynotes), features in VFP 8.0 remain under NDA until after the keynote at DevCon on Sept 29th. The entire curtain will be lifted on VFP 8.0 both in the keynote and in most of the DevCon sessions, and starting Sept 30th, anyone can say anything about VFP 8.0 or demo it if they have the beta. I expect lots of threads here on the UT about VFP 8.0 starting in the late evening of Sept 29th after the DevCon keynote.