>>>Tom:
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>>>They say bad news always comes in threes, and for loyal developer groups that could be the case. When Visual Basic 6 is fully retired
>>>
>>>The infamous "third shoe" actually already dropped: J# is officially slated for retirement. So, maybe there's a new policy change at MS: "Bad news from now on will come in fours." 8-[
>
>>Sounds like a horse, completely unshod :).

>Or a programmer, left without tools, crawling towards open source... ;-)

Or unwittingly driven to open source?