Microsoft has been a world leader in the area of program development all the time. Visual Studio 6.0 is a very classic programming component (Integrated Development Environment) introduced by Microsoft in 1998. This is the last version to run on the Windows 9x platform, the last version to include Visual J++, the last program development component of Microsoft that does not support the .NET Framework (Microsoft started to fully support the object-oriented .NET Framework from the next release of Visual Studio - 7.0), also the next four versions' core environment that provides programmers with an integrated look-alike platform.

BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is one of the most popular and widely used programming languages in the history of computing technology. Of course, the only BASIC-based languages still in production today are probably the cross-platform PureBasic and the classic, famous Visual Basic developed by Microsoft.