Number 20 on the eWeek top 25 technologies in Microsoft Visual Basic. Microsoft's development platform for Windows caused a revolution in available applications for Windows. 

Microsoft always bundled QuickBASIC for free with their DOS distributions. It allowed people to quickly cobble together simple programs to meet their needs. When Windows 3.1 hit the market there wasn't an equivalent included with the operating system. What Microsoft did was offer a new program, that you had to pay for, called Microsoft Visual Basic. It allowed non-development types the ability to make programs for Windows 3.1.

Amazingly, the program caught on with developers as well and an explosion of Microsoft Visual Basic applications hit the market. You could always tell if a program was written with Visual Basic, as it required a VBRUN DLL.

The program continues to do well in the marketplace with some estimates showing 50% of all Windows development is done with Visual Basic.  

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