Mike,

I'd think that VC++ has a much larger market share than the Borland, Symantec and IBM C++ compilers at this point. But there are things like Unix, you know that other OS *g*, that heavily use C++. I'd guess that maybe 50-75% of the C++ programmers are doing windows development.

>That's pretty interesting. Of course if MS didn't sell any copies of C++ they'd still be able to justify investing in it since pretty much all of their products are developed in it.
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>Robert, can you comment on how many copies of VS have shipped?