There was also J#, though it wasn't really anticompetitive. Maybe it was just the opposite, now that I think about it. Microsoft obviously felt that .NET, C#, a

There was also J#, though it wasn't really anticompetitive. Maybe it was just the opposite, now that I think about it. Microsoft obviously felt that .NET, C#, and the CLR were viable competitors to Java and the JVM, and offered J# as a sort of on-ramp from the Java cowpath to the .NET expressway. That's not meant as a knock against the Java world now; I just remember .NET being a pleasant place to be back in those days.