Hi Ken,

This term "Extended support" is new to me and I don't remember it being mentioned when VFP's support was officially stated to be to 2013 (or whatever it was when originally published not too long ago).

Is it fair for me to assume that "extended support" means, to me and my users, exactly the same identical thing as 'support' (as in "...supported through 2008...") and that the terminology has more to do with Microsoft wishing to indicate that the announced support term is special in some way (i.e. not to be assumed to be common to all Microsoft products)?

Thanks

Jim

>>Hmm... with my english <g>
>>1) MS strategic is to concentrate to .NET not to VFP - OR
>>2) If you want to do .NET look for Visual Studio, not VFP - OR
>>3) If you want to do basically .NET look for Visual studio but if not, you can do business with VFP too which is our strategic tool too but not with the .NET
>
>1) Correct
>2) Correct
>3) If you want to do .NET programming, you will need to use Visual Studio and not Visual FoxPro. Visual Studio is Microsoft's strategic developer tool. But Visual FoxPro 8.0 is now available for data-centric application development and is now supported through 2008 or 2013 with extended support. Visual FoxPro 9.0 will release late this year, and there will be product support for version 9.0 ten years after it is released (5 years standard, additional 5 years extended support).