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By all indications in the Google News, it appears that there is a strong demand for a Service Pack for Delphi 7.
Going by Borland Software Corporation's track record, it would appear that a service pack for Delphi 7 is imminent.
See Service Pack for Delphi 7
A method to design records so that they're allocated on a specific byte boundary, such as 16 bytes, 512 bytes, 4096 bytes, etc.