This means you can extend the useful, working life of your software by compiling and updating your application to use VFP9. Unfortunately for this company, most new machines now come with a 64-bit version of.

Visual FoxPro applications compiled using version 9 are known to generally work. Whilst it is a 64-bit operating system it has a 32-bit compatibility layer which old applications use to run. At the time of writing the latest release of Windows is Windows 10. New hardware and software bought today are all using a 64-bit architecture. Visual FoxPro is built on 32-bit architecture. It does mean that you need to start planning for your business and the future of your FoxPro application. This doesn’t mean that your application is going to stop running overnight. Nor do they need to ensure that Visual FoxPro applications continue running. Visual FoxPro 9 (VFP9) was the last release and the extended support period ended in 2015. This means that Microsoft is under no obligation to provide bug fixes to the language. Microsoft chose to stop developing Visual FoxPro to concentrate their resources on other products in their line. During this window, they will provide bug fixes, provide upgrades and otherwise generally support their product. Microsoft commits to supporting a particular version for a certain period of time.

I am a church minster and many years ago I bought a database package that used FoxPro 2.6.

They cannot support every version of their software indefinitely. >I have recently bought a new laptop running windows 10. For commercial organisations like Microsoft, they are continually releasing new software to take advantage of the improvements in new hardware to make our lives easier. I found a program called vDOS that allows me to run our business software (Inventory Control, Purchase Orders, Payroll, and Point Of Sale) that is written in. When any software is developed it has an expected lifetime.

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