Thanks egawtry, that was something interesting history of the compiler

MS is getting dumb again in that it raised the price back to around $1000 (unless you are a student). Guess they feel secure in their share of the market.
wah! $1000 for MS VC++ ? oops.. Its double the price of Windows7! and, if i'm gonna purchase VC.. i'll surely get my pant's torn

How can Microsoft be this much greedy for money? gates had earned enough, and he still need bucks for a bath?

@egawtry

Excuse me for my off question.. i had a doubt.., since you've some knowledge of past, i think i'd ask you.. is Windows a copy of some other operating system? did they copied anything from other people or did they wrote that from scratch?

Did any other people copied from Microsoft Windows? i mean, linux or unix or any other?

Why the Open Source people hates Microsoft the most? As Microsoft is not the only company who sells their product for price... why Opensource is not hating Adobe, Autodesk and all? I have seen Opensource buddies crying at Windows and Microsoft like Billgates had stolen their underwears..

i heard that Apple Jobs stoled some concepts from Windows like multitasking, taskbar and all.. and Apple Jobs stoled GUI from Xerox and all..