Hello All:

There are some questions that has been buggin me for quite some time...

I'm very much interested in C++(I mean, thats the language I know best).. but still studying ..
But the thing that depresses me is that most(almost all) programs written in C++ is not at all appealing, when we run it in Windows, though it looks wonderful in a dos environment. So, I was looking for some "which kind of programs => which language"...(hope u understand)

Now comes my mean questions...
In which language is the following applications written ?
* MSN / Yahoo Messenger
* Adobe Photoshop
* Other Interactive Window programs (any others u can think of)
* Windows !!

Yeah, I've heard of Visual C++ and VB. Which do u think is better ?? (.. tough question I perume :P) What are its pros and cons...

Thanx,
XN