You are talking about very important things. Thank you.

In Russia I have customers, who cannot afford to by a new hardware, so I HAVE to use FPD 2.6a for them with 486 computers.

Some customers has old Pentium computers with W95 and they never hear about Internet (may be in Jokes or by TV :) So, I use for them VFP 6.0.

Some new companies have branches and need to have connections over Internet - I have no choise - VFP 7.0 with Web services.

And now I need new VFP 8.0 features - Date Adapter with XML update functions (I hope easy and cool).

In Russia - money is a very important questions. I was proud, that I have all legal products - FPD 2.6a, VFP 6.0 and VFP 7.0. It was a leagal way to use MS products (that gave reason to my friends lough under me). I have no money for full VFP 8.0 version (I am collecting money for upgrade version till last year). What I have to do? As many programmers in Russia - use a piracy copy?

Why Microsoft push me on that illegal way? Who can help developers in developing countries?


>Here's the stupid thing that I did. I upgraded to VFP7 even if I did'nt really needed it. It was my contribution to the community.
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>I upgraded to VFP 7 but I still develop things with VFP6 because apparently I can still do that. At the moment I use VFP7 because of its intellisense but compile in VFP6. So it's the best of both worlds.
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>Now with VFP 8 it's another ball game. Upgrading to VFP8 means that development with lower versions must stop.
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>I bought some cool third party tools that allow me to build nice applications with VFP6. But with VFP7 I have some problems. So for now it's not too bad because I can still use VFP6.
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>So if I have problems with these third party tools with VFP7 I don't see why I would'nt have the same problems with VFP8.
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>But the catch is that I can't upgrade to VFP8 because I don't know if I'll have problems with those tools. And If I upgrade to VFP8 and have problems with those tools I can't go back to VFP6. Sure I could remove VFP8 (or can I from a legal point of view because at that point I upgraded to VFP8) and stay with VFP 7 or 6 or others below. But after losing some dollars doing the VFP8 test.
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>Is it only me or is there something weird with that decision by MS to do that?