Re: It was the EU who compelled Ms to make Ms.Net an open standard....
>Try working at a large company with apps fighting over bugs due to differing VB runtimes.<
That problem was the VB3 and VB4 runtimes, which is to say Win9x/Win 3.x The later problem which people are more like to remember was the problem with conflicting C runtimes around the time of Win2K, which caused problems with objects written in C for use in other programs (including for use in VB programs).
It was the problem with conflicting C runtimes (as exposed by VB and other programs), along with the decreasing cost of memory and disk space, which caused MS to rethink their shared DLL approach.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
