petition with over 7400 votes on the Microsoft user voice site

was denied by the same person who denied a petition in

2005 of over 15,000 programmers. Clearly the demand is

there to bring back vb6.
Hmm this would indicate that the demand is less than 1/2 what it was in 2005 and if your stat is correct about there being over 6 million professionals who used VB6 that is a very very small percentage.

Also consider that many of the people who vote in these things are not professional developers and do not even own a legit copy of the software so you have maybe 3000 that actually own a legal copy of VB which is a far cry from 6 million.

That said if a new option became available I would look into it but would not invest any money into it until it was proven in the field.