[ozim]

As much as I know the story MSFT was basically driving limousines in front of Borland headquarters and showering developers with money to jump the ship.

When web apps took off there was nothing that would save Delphi. Web stack was awful back then and I also enjoyed Delphi an building interfaces with it.

But web stack unfortunately had many more upsides than desktop apps and nowadays tooling for web sucks less.