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Sorry. That just popped into my head.

I've been really happy with Win7 so far (much more so than Vista), and it's the first development platform I consider stable since NT4SP6 (I don't really consider XP to be for development, but it's pretty stable too). The big problem I have with VB in general isn't the interface - that's actually quite nice. It has more to do with scalability, creating libraries, information hiding, and a lot of the fun stuff you can do with subclassing in C++ (and C# for that matter).

But the real problem with VB isn't the limitations of the code capabilities. It is the prototyping. It is dirt simple to throw together a beautiful prototype that does absolutely nothing under the hood and some saleshole will start pushing it as if it's a finished project, get someone to buy it and the pointy-haired boss will say "ship it". It's really difficult to get across the concept that it is a pretty shell, like the body to a Ferrari with no frame, engine, seats, steering wheels or even wheels for that matter. All they see is "SHINY!"