Looks like Microsoft may be taking a page out of their old DOS book, and encouraging younger computer enthusiast to get into programming. Small Basic v0.7 was released somewhat recently, however I only found out about it late last week. Instantly upon writing my first Hello World program in Small Basic it reminded me of playing with QBasic back in they day. I mean, it's not an ugly DOS interface or anything. In fact, it's a really nice looking environment so far. That being said, it's still in early development so the IDE isn't exactly the most functional.