Microsoft presents AVAJ

Microsoft presented its next salvo in its war against Java: AVAJ, a language which looks like Java, but has two extra keywords, making it incompatible with Java. Simultaneously, it has announced that Windows Foundation Classes will be included in Visual J++ 6.0. (J as in avaJ) The great thing about Avaj, is that it will probably have a set of classes for building server-side applications that won't run on other machines. Of course, real hackers are not best pleased.

(A name has been changed to protect the innocent)