Visual Basic was a key part of the flywheel for Windows. Every business, and especially small businesses, had all these programs that are part of their daily workflow. They weren’t super complicated programs, but necessary. VB made it simple. Companies could write them themselves without much prior programming experience. Or there were legions of resellers and small consultancy groups who wrote VB programs for clients. It was a whole ecosystem that really drove Windows forward. And it was only for Windows. There was never VB for OS/2 or Mac. You had to be part of the Windows ecosystem. It
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