>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).
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>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)?

When VFP 8.0 was released, it was set with standard support until 2008 and extended support until 2010. Microsoft announced last week a change in support to have products receive 5 years support with 5 additional years of extended support, that means support for VFP 8.0 will go until 2013 extended rather than 2010 as was before last week. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=LifeAn16