Well, I don't know in rest of the world (maybe I miss something), but in Italy VFP9 is available and sold!
The italian MSDN newletter I received yesterday, says that VFP9 is available. The italian MS site say that VFP9 is available:

http://www.microsoft.com/italy/msdn/prodotti/vfoxpro/evaluation/annunciofox9.mspx

and here you can buy it at about 703 euro:

http://www.gorilla.it/gorilla/product.asp?sku=X000235668&dept%5Fid=

(this site is linked from the "where to buy" MS web page)
the official VFP website doesn't mention this, is MS Italy ahead the rest of the world?

Franco