Re Demise of VB? (was: Rev's Mac-Centricity)

[Stephen King]

Ken Ray wrote
>
>On 8/7/04 10:06 PM, "Chipp Walters" <chipp at chipp.com> wrote:
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>> Not to mention all of the alienated VB programmers MS created when it
>> dumped VB in favor of .NET. And now they're getting rid of VB all
together!
>
>Really? Could you provide a link where you saw that? Just curious...
>
>Ken Ray
>Sons of Thunder Software

Seems puzzling... In my Sep 2004 copy of Computer Shopper, News states
Microsoft is releasing express versions of a number of apps aimed at budding
programmers. VB 2005 is one of those listed.

Aimed at grabbing those millions of hobbyists?

Steve