"David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > More likely, Microsoft was afraid that a portable browser could become the > platform of the future, making the operating system on longer particularly > important.
No. At the time (1995), Microsoft had no clue about what the Internet was and how important it would become. That was the year they launched their own dialup service modeled after AOL, and the year _The Road Ahead_, in which Bill Gates's ghost writer predicted that MSN would become the dominant computer network, was released (read the original, not the later revised edition which papered over the worst blunders). Microsoft expected to end up in control of client, network and content. It wasn't until 1996 that they did an about-face and bet, if not the farm, then at least a barn or two on the Internet. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
