Well these sorts of campaigns have come and gone in the past, but it probably doesn't hurt to be hopeful and vote them up.

What I'd prefer to see is a series of gradual updates (VB7, highly compatible with VB6; VB8, more adventurous enhancements; etc.) but we'd be lucky to see even one.

What I fear we'll get from Microsoft (if anything) is a sort of stripped-down language based on VB.Net only usable for Metro applet programming. After all, most of them are convinced due to all of the FUD out there that people stick with VB6 because VB.Net is "hard."