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Murdered by Microsoft, like many products and companies which dared challenge them. https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/use-cnet-shopping-to-seek-out-the-best-deals/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/use-cnet-sho... One of the employees they lured away was Anders Hejlsberg, former chief architect of Delphi, which built C# at Microsoft. WinForms had an uncanny resemblance to VCL. Before that Microsoft had tried to extend-embrace-extinguish Java with J++, but got sued by Sun into submission. MS were utter scum back then, but Borland’s mistakes certainly didn’t help either.