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In article <1gor8rINN63l@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> villalj@xanth.CS.ORST.EDU (John Villalovos) writes:
>Any one else out there notice that since December 1st Microsoft does not offer
>free support anymore for their BASIC products (at least PDS).  Now you have to
>call either a 900 number, 800 number with credit card, CI$, or Genie.
>
>They don't seem to do this with programs like Excel.
>
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Well....I work for HP and I've got a number of systems which are now using
QuickBASIC for the production software.  It's version 4.5.  MS is REALLY
backing off from support of BASIC.  We considered going to PDS v7.x, but
found out the new compiler object modules won't link with some of our
earlier object modules (variety of stuff: MS C v5.0, MS C v5.1, QB v4.5 etc).
Rather than buy the latest BASIC from MS, and then rewrite/recompile the
earlier stuff, we are just switching to MS C/C++ v7.0, i.e. since BASIC
doesn't seem to be charted as a long-term supported language (at least at
MS), we decided to switch to a language that IS.  Of course, that means
we will finally be forced to rewrite that ol' HP BASIC stuff that we've
been getting by with.....   (YUK...LINE NUMBERS!)

:*)

Brian