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March 14, 2005 More than 100 of the software giant's most influential developers urge the company to continue support for Visual Basic in its "classic" form. TAGS: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Microsoft Visual Basic, petition, language, developer, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Corp., survey

November 1, 2006 Big Blue is marketing Lotus Expeditor as an alternative to Microsoft's .Net. TAGS: IBM Corp., Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft .NET, developer, Java, Microsoft Corp.

March 16, 2005 Free support for developer tool ends this month, but Microsoft is trying to ease the transition. TAGS: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic, Soma, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Microsoft Corp., developer, Microsoft .NET, vice president, Java

March 18, 2005 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may not have been bellowing onstage, but the company was all about developers this week just the same. TAGS: GCC, Microsoft Visual Basic, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic.Net, Steve Ballmer, development, developer, Microsoft Corp., language, CEO

April 22, 2005 Bjarne Stroustrup claims that the programming language has never been bigger, but not everyone agrees. TAGS: C++ programming language, programming language, Java, creator, C# language, Governor, Microsoft Visual Basic, survey, Forrester Research Inc., language, developer, programming, Microsoft Corp.

January 23, 2004 On the eve of Lotus' annual user conference, Microsoft and other rivals are wooing developers who are unwilling to follow Lotus to a new Java programming model. TAGS: LotusScript, IBM Lotus Domino, application development, IBM Corp., portlet, workplace, Java, Java 2, J2EE, developer, Microsoft Exchange Server, collaboration, Microsoft Visual Basic, programming, Microsoft Corp., conference

September 16, 2003 The software giant's rivals are countering it by adopting one of its most successful strategies: Offering easy-to-use tools to drive sales of server software. TAGS: Java, server software, Java software company, Web service, Java company, Microsoft Visual Basic, Java software, Microsoft .NET, Sun Microsystems Inc., BEA Systems Inc., software company, server, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., developer

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