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They lost to MS because, at least to a large part, they optimized for the wrong thing. They were just like WordPerfect, placing raw performance above everything
by hintymad 4y ago
They lost to MS because, at least to a large part, they optimized for the wrong thing. They were just like WordPerfect, placing raw performance above everything. As a result, Borland C++ was way behind the release cycle of Win32 as the company thought that the full control offered by MS DOS was too precious to let go. When Borland finally came around, Visual Studio already took over. That they spent great resources on other languages, such as Object Pascal with Delphi (a great IDE, by the way), did not help much either. It also baffled me why they decided to pivot to SLCM solutions -- the term alone would put me to sleep, but maybe I'm too narrow minded.