Why didn't Micro Soft take D as their new language?

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On Sunday, 7 June 2020 at 20:46:36 UTC, Vinod K Chandran wrote:
> Why didn't Micro Soft take D as their new language? If they 
> wanted a better C, D would have been better than Rust.

Because Microsoft copies technologies and makes an in house 
version of it. Microsoft did it with Java and called it J++. I 
expect that Microsoft will come with a Rust clone soon, we know 
that they have already started working on that.

Why didn't they clone D? Maybe it was too close to C++ and C#, 
the extra work wasn't worth it. Maybe D was too fringe for 
Microsoft to care.