Yawn.
Tell the class who Anders Hejlsberg is and then quack about conspiracy.
In the mid nineties, Anders, at Borland, developed a positively excellent alternative (if you can stomach Pascal, that is — although, compared to VB there is no contest) to Microsoft's then main developer tool, Visual Basic.
Microsoft hired him away with a $1.5 million signing bonus, a base salary of up to $200,000, and options to buy 75,000 shares of Microsoft stock. At Microsoft, he went on to lead the development of J++, a futile attempt by MS to derail Java (which deserved derailing, but by something better, not Microsoft).