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[TerryRitchie]

I have written it before, and I can only repeat it: If you live in the USA, ask Microsoft who developed the original VisualBasic, up to VB6. There are definitely still a few of them.
If you can get through that point, present your project to them and ask them if they would be interested in co-developing VB with QB64 (without the damned Net-Shit).

Your project has potential, but without professional support, it will remain niche.
Try MS. Nothing more than rejection/disinterest can happen.

Microsoft decided to stop supporting programming for the masses when they chose to hide QBASIC in the OLDMSDOS directory on the installation CD starting with Windows 95 and then later not including it at all on the installation CDs beginning with Windows XP. Granted, QBASIC was 16bit and not a good fit for XP, but they could have developed a free 32bit version of VB to include in later operating systems. Microsoft's goal was (and is) to keep the computing masses as dumb as possible for control. Providing the means to write your own software didn't fit their agenda.

What amazes me is that Microsoft has never come after the QB64 project with a cease and desist.

Microsoft is not what it was 10-15 years ago (at least that's what it seems like to me). They have no issues with things like ReactOS and Wine. So, I doubt they'll have any issue with QB64. Moreoever, QB64 is a clean-room open-source implementation of the language.

That's a good point about ReactOS and Wine.