Actually, the record shows that Microsoft did very much try to crush Borland. While Microsoft did initially offer QuickPascal and embraced it (had no choice be

Actually, the record shows that Microsoft did very much try to crush Borland. While Microsoft did initially offer QuickPascal and embraced it (had no choice because of Pascal's popularity), Borland crushed them with Turbo Pascal 5.5 (1989) that had their version of Apple's Object Pascal (created in 1986) extensions. From Turbo Pascal 5.5 and up, it was using Borland's version of Object Pascal. Note, C++ took a bit to take off, so didn't start to go toe to toe with Pascal until around 1992. C++ didn't get ISO until 1998. C# didn't happen until 2000. So Borland and Pascal were a thorn to Microsoft for years, not to mention Java (1995) and Sun. Borland was eventually forced to sue Microsoft for unfair competitive practices. Microsoft was arguably playing dirty, and hired away many of Borland's top engineers. This included the creator of Turbo Pascal, Anders Hejlsberg. Who then Microsoft had him create C#, along with other ex-Borland engineers. In addition, there was all kinds of allegations during the 90s about Microsoft blocking or hiding APIs from Borland and negatively affecting their software.