Microsoft announces major new upgrade of visual basic programming tool. (Microsoft Corp.)

From: Software Industry Report | Date: September 18, 1995 | Copyright information

Ninety Third-Party Vendors Announce Simultaneous Support For VB 4.0

Microsoft Corp. has announced a major revision of its Visual Basic rapid application development (RAD) tool. The Redmond, Wash., software giant says Visual Basic version 4.0 makes it easy to take full advantage of the features in the Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.1 operating systems.

First introduced in 1991, Microsoft says Visual Basic already has almost two million users. The software is designed for non-professional programmers who are not versed in complex programming languages. A whole ...

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