People may be interested to listen to this 20 minute interview with Anders (and a MS colleague named Steve Lucco) in which they discuss Java, Javascript, C#, Typescript, XMl...

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/619759/CodeProject-interviews-Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Steve

They also mention Microsoft's interest in "outreach to the broader development community" (i. e. non-Windows), and their view that Javascript is the only real cross-platform language. (Anders was the original architect of Delphi, now the chief architect of C#).

And he is now the architect of the new Microsoft Javascript engine.

Which helps explain why they have this view, which is strange to say the least.

Java was cross-platform long before Javascript.
But they don't own it, which is the major obstacle for M$ to adopt it.

It's always useful to have this kind of information in your head to put things in perspective.

This talk is not so innocent as it may seem.

Michael.