Two things: First, "Version Number" is an imaginary marketing construct which is just the name of whatever same old stuff they are going to sell. When MS was pitching "Windows 95" Bill Gates appeared during the telecast and said that this was the latest, newest, most-bug-free, fastest version of windows ever invented. And, he continued, in three years he would be back to say THAT version was the latest, newest, most secure, fastest version of windows ever invented. He said the silent part out loud. In '95. Still true.
Microsoft has been shipping "Feature Updates" every six months (except they never ship on schedule!) which involve downloading an entire 2 or 3 gigabytes of a full windows installer, and doing a side-by-side installation of the old windows and the new windows, migrating all your "stuff" over, and then asking to delete the "old" windows after some period of time. These have all been new windows installs, with new features, new bugs, and removed and disabled features -- tiles, Live Tiles, no tiles, wait, tiles are back, etc. Version 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 and so on. Second, you should always plan on Visual FoxPro no longer working. Microsoft will drag Win32 and 32-bit OLE and OBDC and all the acronyms along for as long as they have to, and then drop it like a hot potato. There's a LOT of legacy software out there, and there are business reasons why they support Win32, invisible to me and you. At some point those reasons will go away, or the profit-loss calculation will change, and we will be kicked to the curb, like Front Page and Visual J++ and InterDev. No longer supporting Win32 means saving money to MS. At some point, they will pull the plug. Bonus Postscript: MS says that there may have been a failure to communicate on the new version: https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11-microsoft-apologizes-for-compatibility-confusion-hints-at-changes/ On Mon, Jun 28, 2021 at 10:06 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC < mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> wrote: > Hmmm...I thought Windows 10 was the last OS! Does this mean we have the > anxiety yet again of "will our VFP apps work in Win<Next>" ??? > > -- > Michael J. Babcock, MCP > Fox/VFP dev since 1997 > Developer of FabNet estimating software - mbsoftwaresolutions.com > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/CACW6n4u7HLMHs0h7J915YPZr_qWsW0N0R=cin-ko4yk-fec...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
