Visual Basic 6: Going... Going... Gone...
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Visual Basic 6: Going... Going... Gone...

Apparently mainstream support for VB6 ends this month!!

Perhaps that explains why this email-rule has been turning up on Microsoft Employee's computers lately.

email rule (click to engorge)
email rule

More discussion of the end of vb6 via Sahil Malik at Code Better


'adam' on Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:51:57 GMT, sez:

Is it a coincidence that you are talking about Visual Basic, and the google ads on the right says "powerful advocates for people with disabilities"??

Just my two cents.


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