[johtela]

Being old enough to have used both Microsoft and Borland development tools back in the 90s, I think Borland was clearly ahead of the game in Windows development. GUI development with MFC was clunky and tedious. Tools generated ton of boilerplate code that you had to understand and maintain. Borland on the other hand offered much more developer friendly experience, especially when Delphi 1.0 came out on 1995. That was hands down the best development tool for Win16. They maintained the edge in Win32 development as well with Delphi 2.0. So, seeing all the dirty tactics MS employed to steer developers to using their tools just reminds me what an a-hole company they used to be.

[tecleandor]

Oh! Delphi was way ahead, at least on the user experience, I remember VB6 not having 'undo' actions for form editing so if you sneezed and accidentally moved a bunch of elements in your form, well...

And don't talk about VB redistributable, that weren't funny at all in the dial up era...