[[wikipedia:Microsoft]] is the company which produces an [[OOP]] language with single inheritance and multiple class inheritance with automatic memory management running on in a [[VM|virtual machine]] and compiled to intermediate form rather than native executable format. [[Blogs:JaroslavTulach:Theory:History_of_Programming_Languages|History of Programming Languages]] claims that [[Microsoft]] is proud of novelty of such language (in spite it is not [[Java]]).

In its early days [[Microsoft]] create [[MS-DOS]] and heralded its novelty (in spite it was not [[CP/M]]).