I blogged about it a few days ago on a VB forum and don't feel like adding much more: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...guage-Strategy

The main point if you have a short attention span:

VB users don't participate in the community in ways that are visible to Microsoft, if you want MS to believe this language isn't a 10% project you should probably make sure you make some noise in the places where they look.