Don't make the mistake of regarding ELF as the equivalent of Visual Basic script in Microsoft Office.

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The big winner in PCs was Microsoft, which spent millions on developer conferences and Visual Basic, its software toolkit for developers.

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Support for a slew of Microsoft Web tools and technologies, including Active Server Pages, Office 2000, Visual Basic Script and FrontPage 2000.

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