>>Are you expecting the installation process itself to halt when it is an UPGRADE install and it finds VFP7 still installed on the machine?
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>Yes, my point exactly. Though personally, if the license agreement is very clear, I will certainly abide by it.
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>But will it technically be enforced? That's something I sorely need to know, as a license-manager for vfp at my agency. Other vfp8 users may not be as scrupulous, and I can't watch everyone all the time, what with credit card purchasing being virtually untrackable - particularly if users use the product on machines I can't "watch" through our network.

Yes, it sure is making it hard for you to do a proper job.
And on further thinking, *if* it was going to be automatically enforced then it would have to do the removing of VFP7 itself, else how would it know that you qualified for the upgrade in the first place? LATER: well it could ask for the CD, but that can't be it if it is installed (VFP7).
My guess is that it is a trust style of "enforcement".

And I want to take this opportunity to make it clear that I, too, feel that MS is free to do whatever it wishes to do for any of its products at any time as long as its legal and upholds prior agreements.
My objection remains that this should have been publicized by MS when they adopted this DIFFERENT strategy whenever that was. Even my lowly bank warns me on my statement, on extra inserts and on signage outside the branches that 'there are important changes to the terms and conditions of your xxxxxxx agreement'.