In 1999 I released my first commercial software product. ShutOff 2000 was a Windows application that could log off or shut down Windows in multiple ways. It was successful enough that a serial number generator was produced by at least two hacker collectives. A badge of honour, really.
So now that I’m retired, I thought I’d go back and look at how different life is from the last release, which was as recent as 2014.
And then I realized I needed to install Visual Basic 6.0 on my 64-bit Windows 11 virtual machine.
This goes about as well as you’d expect, except that, by the end of it, Randolph actually has a working solution.