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FoxPro revived decades after Microsoft killed it
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FoxPro revived decades after Microsoft killed it

The gist

FoxDev Studio released a runtime that runs Visual FoxPro 9 apps, killed by Microsoft in 2007.
It targets teams whose old business software has no supported path forward.

How it unfolded

  1. 2007Microsoft killed FoxPro, ending the database tool's vendor-supported life.
  2. Sep 19, 2026A Facebook post about building an enterprise-grade application with AI recalls the author's late-1990s MS-FoxPro coding days.
  3. Sep 22, 2026FoxDev Studio (foxscript.org) is posted, described as FoxPro revived, with FoxScript v2.6.0 out to replace Windows with a hardened configuration built on NixOS.

Sources

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