[Aalaan]

Not sure about this Larry. It is a full-blown language and not just about
macros, so I imagine that *all* apps written with it are incomprehensible to
the new language. The applications developed with it may work with eg Vista
(with some exceptions I think) but future o/s will probably not. The thing
is that the millions of developers who have built a knowledge in it and a
way of working with it must jettison it all to take up the successor. Some
of them have -- but M$oft will doubtless do it all over again.

"Larry" wrote in message
...
Now
M$ have brought out what they still call 'Visual Basic' and it doesn't
bear
the slightest similarity to what went before. They will no longer sell
the
old one. Millions of developers Worldwide have thrown away years of
effort.

That is just horrendous. But you're not saying that all the macros from
previous version don't work any more, are you? It's just that the user
interface has changed and so people have to learn to use the new one and
their skills at using the old one are all worthless now, is that what
you're
saying?