"Mike" wrote

| Microsoft will do whatever they can to encourage you to
| move to win10. One subtle move is to change the software
| development environment in such a way that it forces vendors
| to maintain two separate versions of their product.

?? I don't know what you're referring to. I work
in VB6 and can write software that runs on virtually
any existing Windows computer without installing
any support files. Are you talking about Metro?
Or something else?