http://news.com.com/Microsoft+walks+VB+tight+rope/2100-1007_3-5620821.html?tag=nefd.lede

Despite the hue and cry from many in the VB6 crowd, how often does a company support a non-mainframe environment for 7 years nowadays? That doesn't even happen in the open source community.

It's not like compiled VB6 code instantly stops running at the end of the month. The VB RUNTIME dlls are installed by default on Windows XP and 32-bit code will probably still run on Longhorn (whenever it finally comes out). It is also a fact that a number of tasks that are taken for granted in modern applications (like multithreading, web integration, oo design) can't be done or done cleanly in VB6.

I don't see the problem. I am concerned at how often I've become an MS defender in recent days, though. I have to go read up on my Insekt God Prophet propaganda.