Good post Del, I agree with the magazine comments. Not including any "older" ideas and concepts and practices would be based on the belief that the reader knows everything that has ever come before. Well that might apply to some of our more positive readers but I cannot imagine to all :)
But VFP8 is really worth upgrading to!
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.