Microsoft did their best to kill their compiler business, but I think they cut their own throat when their cheapest C++ product was nearly $1k. I use C++ Builder 5 occasionally for some maintenance work, but got turned off when I "upgraded" to version 6 and a lot of our code stopped compiling. (Yes, there were probably some errors in the code, but it worked and writing code is just a small part of what we do.) So, we're still on v5, and I'm slowly learning Python for any new software that I need.

Still, they must be doing something right to still be around. Having a profitable tiny market share beats going belly up.

Cheers,
Scott.