>You can install VFP8 on the same PC as VFP7 as long as VFP8 is a full version not upgrade from VFP7.

Yes, I sort of guessed that already, Sergey, but thankyou for the confirmation.

It reminds me greatly of the old days when we had various "Pro" and "End-user" versions of different software...In fact, I still have several SW products that use this method, and I have no argument with it. For one product, I may require a Pro version, for another I may only need the End-User version. The prices only increase gradually, though, for these products, for each type of version, as the major upgrades are released. All quite sensible.

Whereas, this new MS "auto-obsoletion" scheme looks like a pure money-grab, without even a very clever disguise, does it not? They should at least phase in the price increases for "Pro/non-upgrade" versions more gradually (for current users only, I mean), in order to appear slightly clever...

That brings another thought: perhaps what they might use to soften this EULA would be a 3-version pricing-tier, so that MS treats its regular customers better than this new EULA does:

1) A New Pro User version, full-price
2) A Standard Upgrade version, half of that price, issued like the vfp8 EULA
3) A Pro "Continuous" Version (for lack of a better word, at the moment), a price perhaps $100 more than #2, but would allow existing users to upgrade and still retain previous versions.