Imagine the problem that certain companies (who have delayed investing in their products) are running into now that Microsoft has announced no VB runtime will be in Windows 7 (optimistically due in early 2010).

I hope they're starting their migration/risk mitigation strategies now.

I don't understand what they mean by "no VB runtime". My impression was that the VB installer always included all the DLLs necessary to run on a generic Win32 system. If they change something to break VB programs, they'll also be breaking lots of other Win32 software, too.

Those are what FORTRAN people are hired for. To maintain their archaic systems which store vital information.

Sounds like a business opportunity to me.