Jeff Bezos and Jerry Yang looked like they were wondering if there was a disgruntled shareholder playing hidden sniper in the audience, while Steve Ballmer, who didn't bother even making a personal appearance but instead was available via satellite, sat there with the dumbest grin I have ever seen plastered on his face. So in short, it was a dull and worthless waste of TV time. In closing, let me post a few of the most notable comments of the night. For many of us awaiting the impending release of Microsoft. The answer is yes - and no.
NET are more similar in name than in substance.
VB.NET is really a rewrite of the language to give it the kind of power we have always longed for in order for it to become a true first class language. Let's face it, VB has been the kind of language that allowed for too much sloppy code to be written over the years. Providing an upgrade path to .NET would simply magnify that sloppiness. This isn't to say that there isn't also a tremendous amount of really great code written by many developers too, so please don't think I am saying that all VB code is sloppy. When it comes right down to it, we are more likely to use .NET to write new applications than we are to upgrade existing ones.