Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
The answer to that is simple. They have to. There are probably still many VB6 programs out there in the wild. I don't know the numbers but if the number of VB6 application deployments is in the thousands or hundreds of thousands, it would simply be bad business for Microsoft to break them for no reason. They want to keep people on Windows so there is just no reason to give their users one extra thing to complain about.
It would be crucial indeed... to migrate from platform to maintain a system. I've seen it in a large store where a program was running on windows 98 .... other computers were win7 at the time.

Edit: It was just a computer with win98