If you watched Borland... I mean Inprise... I mean, whatever they wanted to call themselves in their failed marketing attempts, then you'd see that it was true. I was a big advocate of Delphi, but Borland didn't help out their VARs at all. I worked for some huge projects which were using Delphi in a way that would have gotten a lot of attention- one was with two Fortune 100 companies, two were with huge government agencies, and another was with a huge shipper. All three migrated away from Delphi because of Borland's inattention to the project. When they started to migrate to .NET Microsoft shepherded them through the process, investing money into the project (in the way of on site trainers, help in architecture and conversion, and deep competitive discounts on visual studio and MSDN). Say what you want about the process, but this looks like suicide to someone on the inside.

No... Borland wasn't killed directly or indirectly by Microsoft. Borland shot itself in the head in a very public and expensive act of suicide.

False. If you're going to play in offline mode, you have to enable this *before your connection is severed*. If you try to play in offline mode without going there while you're online, you're SOOL.