Products and Milestones
1975 – Bill Gates and Paul Allen write a version of Basic for Altair 8080
1982 – IBM releases BASCOM 1.0 (developed by Microsoft)
1983 – Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.35 for MS-DOS release
1984 - Microsoft Basic Compiler System v5.36 release
1985 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.0
1986 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 1.01, 1.02, 2.00
1987 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 2.01, 3.00, 4.00
1987 – Microsoft BASIC 6.0
1988 – Microsoft QuickBASIC 4.00, 4.00b, 4.50
1989 – Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.0
1990 - Microsoft BASIC Professional Development System 7.1
1991 – Microsoft Visual Basic released May 20-Windows World Convention –Atlanta
1992 – Microsoft Visual Basic 2.0
1993 – Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 in Standard and Professional versions
1995 – Microsoft Visual Basic 4.0 released, supported the new Windows 95
1997 – Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 – introduction of IntelliSense
1998 – Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 that included Visual Basic 6.0 released (first VS)
2002 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.0
2002 – Visual Studio .NET
2003 – Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 7.1
2003 – Microsoft Visual Studio w/Intellisense
2003 – Visual Studio .NET
2004 – Announce Visual Studios 2005 – Code name Whidbey
2005 – Visual Studio 2005 release w/Extensibility
2005 – Visual Studio Express released
2006 - Expression Tool Set released - devs and designers work together
2006 – Visual Studio Team release – November 30th
2007 – Visual Studio 2008 (code name Orcas) ships November = Video Studio Shell
2010 - Visual Studios (code name Rosario)
