There has been a lot of posts going around the blogsphere over the last week about Microsoft planning to ditch support for VB6. For this argument, I sit completely on the fence. If Microsoft keep or ditch their VB6 support, it won't affect me in the slightest even though I have a strong history with both VB6 and VB.Net. Maybe I should be the umpire of the VB6 support wars.
I am not going to get into the technical details of the arguments for and against (although I think Geoff does a good job). Like Geoff, I never called Microsoft support and Google was my friend. Ok, so I had to have a bit of an opinion. I guess while I am sitting on the fence, I would lean towards supporting Microsoft on this one, but only because I don't care for the VB6 support in the first place.
I have to admit that I get a good little chuckle about this because it never ceases to amaze me how two opposing sides of an argument can be so passionate about something that doesn't bother me in the slightest. This is kind of like my view of politicians. I often think of them as little kids in a sandpit squabbling over who's turn it is to play with the little plastic toy soldiers (John Howard perhaps???).
What I was thinking about this morning as I was reading the blog arguments was about when I was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia at the start of last year. I saw a road worker, who didn't have any forearms, sitting down beside the road trying to eat his lunch with his upper-arms. I saw so many disabled people in Cambodia due to land mines who are struggling to survive and here we are passionately arguing about the lack of VB6 support from Microsoft.
Personally, I think there are more important things to argue about and I am a little curious about how many people really used the Microsoft VB6 support anyway.
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