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Free "upgrade" to RealBasic for Visual Basic 6 Owners

RealSoftware is offering free upgrades to RealBasic 5.5 for current licensed owners of Visual Basic 6. Microsoft terminated support of Visual Basic 6.0 a couple of days ago, and not everyone wants to move to .NET or C#. I happen to like .NET (and mono for that matter), but the price is certainly hard to beat for RealSoftware's "uprade" or side-grade offer.

If you want to take RealSoftware up on their freebee, you'll need to give them your email address and they'll send you a license key to unlock the software package. You also need to promise that you own a license for Visual Basic 6.0, although the installer doesn't actually check or ask for the licence code itself.

Very clever and likewise effective marketing. The offer expires April 15th, 2005.

posted by majqa @ 8:22 PM