[lproven]

This is the most important comment so far.

MS tried to embrace, extend and extinguish Java. It got blocked in court.

So, instead, it pushed .NET instead. "If it ain't dot-net, it ain't worth sh*t."

So everything that wasn't dot-net was killed.

Real VB loved by millions? Dead. QBasic, QuickBasic, Quick C? Dead. FoxPro, a good dBase clone, the database of choice for millions of businesses worldwide in the '70s, '80s and '90s? Dead. FrontPage, democratising the web for millions? Dead. HTML is dead, use ASP.net.