I replied with this already to another sibling comment raising the same issue: > I think he simply meant that Java was marketed and therefore prospered as a co

I replied with this already to another sibling comment raising the same issue: > I think he simply meant that Java was marketed and therefore prospered as a counter to Microsoft's dominance more generally. i.e. ".NET" being used casually (and incorrectly) as a catch-all for anything Microsoft was doing in this space roughly around that period ...possibly suggests there's been an anti-M$ bias!