When Microsoft needed a new technology to preserve its software dominance, it turned to Anders Hejlsberg.
The 40-year-old software guru had won the respect of more than a million software developers who embraced Borland's Turbo Pascal and Delphi, two tools he created to help programmers write their software.
Now Microsoft is hoping developers will flock to his latest creation: the C# software programming language, a crucial piece of Microsoft's new software strategy that moves its Windows operating system and software to the Web.
After several years of development, C# (pronounced "C-sharp") is the Redmond, Wash.-based company's answer to one of its biggest threats--the Java language created by rival Sun Microsystems and supported by two other fierce Microsoft competitors, Oracle and IBM.
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