>I was just wondering what the advantages with an updated version would be. Eventually we are going to convert our VFP systems to VB.NET (hold the hate mail please) and waiting for a VFP 9 version that is considered 100% reliable and stable.

I'd guess that VFP9 will be more reliable than VFP8 and VFP8 is probably more reliable than VFP7...

So by getting to VFP9 you'd be using the most reliable version of VFP.