I don't read it that way. But you're right - a lawyer would have to say for sure.
But below I extract the VFP7's EULA statement on UPGRADES and I highlight a few words:
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7. UPGRADES. If the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is labeled as an upgrade, you must be properly licensed to use a product identified by Microsoft as being eligible for the upgrade in order to use the SOFTWARE PRODUCT. A SOFTWARE PRODUCT labeled as an upgrade replaces and/or supplements the product that formed the basis for your eligibility for the upgrade. You may use the resulting upgraded product only in accordance with the terms of this EULA. If the SOFTWARE PRODUCT is an upgrade of a component of a package of software programs that you licensed as a single product, the SOFTWARE PRODUCT may be used and transferred only as part of that single product package and may not be separated for use on more than one computer.
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I don't see how a later EULA can override what was in the prior EULA. I acknowledge that a new EULA can impose new rules, but not to the point of overriding a prior EULA.

At least that's my take. But then I took care of the worry FOR ME by buying a cheap MSDN Universal.


>Hmmm... I'm not so sure about that. We got VFP 7 as an upgrade to VFP 6, and that as an upgrade to VFP 5, etc. If I'm reading the EULA right, installing VFP 8 as an _upgrade_ wipes out the entire chain, doesn't it? Of course, I could be reading it wrong. Those things are more for lawyers than consumers.
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>Thanks,
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>Michelle
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>>Michelle,
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>>I don't think you have any problem with keeping any version installed EXCEPT VFP7 and then only if you buy the upgrade as opposed to the full product.
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>>If you buy the full product then the EULA section on "Upgrades" does NOT apply so there is nothing then forcing you (to stay legal) to use VFP8 'in a reasonable time' or to UNinstall VFP7 once VFP8 is installed.
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>>Even if all of your previous versions were UPGRADES, they can be kept on your system(s) - except VFP7 and ASSUMING it is the basis of your upgrade - if you buy the upgrade to VFP8.
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>>As you probably saw, I think this STINKS and is only aimed at BOTH lining MS' pockets even more AND making criminals out of many prior VFP license owners.
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>>I hope this clarifies... and there has been nothing from MS suggesting that there has been or will be a change to VFP8's EULA.