>You're right. Apparently some issues that required immediate addressing have come to light. That's why it's important to provide Microsoft with replicatable instances of any bugs. I would think that a large part of this change in plan is due to this sort of effort from people here.

This is incorrect. We have been fixing a few issues for VFP 8.0 and have been knowing that we would probably want to do an SP1 for many months now. There is nothing that requires immediate attention in VFP 8.0, and if there were, we would release a hotfix online. We did not want to rush on an SP1, having a bit more time allows us to address more things with more feedback from people using VFP 8.0.