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from: Gregg N
date: 2005-07-22 23:53:26
subject: Re: MS Antispyware uses VB6 runtime?

From: Gregg N 

Rich Gauszka wrote:

>Microsoft acquired Giant, the company that produced the Spyware detection
>program, in December 2004, and lost no time in making it available to users
>the following month.
>
>"This whole issue begs the question," writes our reader,
"why is Microsoft
>using an unsupported development environment against their own guidelines?
>Just another case of' 'Do what I say, not what I do'...
>
>
If the spyware product they acquired was not based on VB.NET, how can they
be asking why MS is not using VB.NET? Did they expect MS to rewrite it? Did
VB.NET even exist when the product development began?

Gregg

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