Taft (2007) reports on aMicrosoftinitiative to create applicationdevelopment too

Taft (2007) reports on aMicrosoftinitiative to create applicationdevelopment tools for non-programmers in theMySpacegeneration. What isMicrosofttrying to accomplish? How might someoneuse such tools and VB to add functionality to aMySpaceor Facebookpage or ablog?