>After reading about all the bugs/problems with VFP8, I think that ms has made things difficult for everyone, including themselves, by adding features to vfp8 that have a complicated architecture, and thus some are unreliable from our perspective. Too many gotcha's. I would personally prefer more RISC-like enhancements to the product in terms of its programming language so I could do more low-level things (such as use _real_ data structures, better API integration, callback support, etc), and thus get at Windows core capabilities more easily. Does anybody else feel this way?

Microsoft has received less bug reports on VFP 8.0 than for any previous release of VFP. Feel free to put your requests in the wish list, but it appears that your request is in the minority.