Agreed!! Fro what it ism, firs tof all you have to be a good "question asker" as the AI doesn't have intuitive contextual abilities. that said, it (for the work....yes real work) I have done' with it, its pretty cool.

At last it doesn't get violent in a discussion about nearly anything as do many today, and definitely doesn't get its feeling hurt (though it seemed to when I told it it was a fancy expert system with lots of memory and storage space) HAH

VB enabled many people to learn to code on the job. Was that good or bad? Personally I see it as a win for some people to have gotten into IT Development as you no longer had to be a "computer scientist" to do so. But simultaneously, it made it almost "too easy" to write code, and is likely responsible for some horribly written monolithic systems that likely still exist today.

AS long as they don't Pirate the standards this time, and dilute the solutions.

I agree wholeheartedly, besides, what are the MSDN developer licenses going for these days? this is M$ grabbing for a lifeline, and perhaps they will succeed.