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The point is that is was included in Windows.

Already enterprise approved on the MS stack.

I know HN is all startups with macbooks on local admin, but in bigger companies even devs cannot just install whatever they want.

VB was never included in Windows (although it did include the runtime files).

Windows did include other BASIC-related stuff, like GW-BASIC, QBasic, and VBScript.

Yes, not to program it but to run. But that makes the IDE and such an easy approval for management and IT to push out/install.

Also batch. aaah, I love cmd.

Perhaps the VBRUNxxx.dll files were distributed with Windows later, but not at first. You had to include them in your install diskettes.