VBGamer

Basically, they want lots of people to use Visual Basic, and say that it is great, and then they go and tell their boss that using VB.NET is going to triple their productivity, then the boss looks at the difference in price between VB.NET and Visual Studio.NET and decides that they might as well buy Visual Studio.NET... something like that. Basically, it is advertising, nothing new, just a method of advertising, which has fairly long term significance rather than short term, so at least right now, we end up winning.