Hi Tom:
I am not getting political here or anything like that. I simply offer some form of explanation as to why VFP8 might not support Win95/NT. The business issues are a whole other matter. FWIW, I am happy enough with this situation, despite the fact that I have a number of Win95 and NT workstations/servers on my network. The majority of the boxes are Win98/2000.
When it gets to this point, if you have clients/customers who are not prepared to upgrade their hardware, then so be it. You stop at VFP7 on those sites until they eventually upgrade, if they do.
Best
-=Gary