"This takes us to the Microsoft Developer Division or "DevDiv" (approximately 1993 - 2002) and later know as "DevTools" (2002 - 2013)." I'm a bit confused by t

"This takes us to the Microsoft Developer Division or "DevDiv" (approximately 1993 - 2002) and later know as "DevTools" (2002 - 2013)." I'm a bit confused by this, as it's certainly been called DevDiv between 2008 and the present. "We had to rewrite VB to use the VS shell and this fundamentally changed the VB product and it user base forever. " There's no reason the VB6 language couldn't have been changed to use the new shell or even the CLR. The real culprit was the decision not to attempt backwards compatibility between the new VB ("VB.NET") and the old one. Whether commercial or open source, only time and market share can tell us which platforms are going to be winners.