>Actually, the exact words that Gaylen Michaels used at the Developer Session (the impetus of this thread) was: "When we're developing an in-house application at Microsoft, we prefer to use Visual Basic to create a prototype rapidly, often with full or near-full functionality. Once the prototype has been approved, we redo the application in Visual C++, to give us a smaller, faster executable."

Interesting that someone from MS states that the way to go to build applications is to go with a specific environment without even taking a look at the application needs. lol