Nick my dear lad... Microsoft is responsible... it is simply marketing
and market awareness.. :)
I remember when Mosaic was still in the university... The web was a
damn class project... I remember going to IBM's web site I think it was
and going oh this is cool.. I hope the rest of the world doesn't find
out about this...
Neither company created the net (netscape or microsoft)... neither can
say they are the single stone that cast it... However, Microsoft's
installation base as an OS via 3.1 of Windows for WOrkgroup tied
networking in and started to bring the necessary protocol stacks inward
to the OS... before then it was really painful...
At any rate, Microsoft spends so much money and is everywhere... their
branding dollars are unmatched and the awareness to Wal-Mart-Main-
Street is 100%... go to the chains... you certainly don't see MAC OS
soft filling major space, nor Unix variations...
Point here is their advertising dollars spoke and people bought Intel
platform machines running windows and flocked online... undeniably so..
and it isn't going to change any time soon. That is why they can claim
the Net as there's...
Same reason why the Commmodore crowd was so powerful not so many many
years ago :)
-paris
[finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present]
[connecting people, places and things]
-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Texidor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:10:50 +1000
Subject: Re: Check out what Gartner is recommending. Drop IIS!
> How do you work that out??
>
> Netscape's browser was around long before IE? Windows was simply a
> vessel.
> In fact the first dial up tools we used for connecting our modems to
> the
> Internet didn't even come from MS. But like so many times from MS,
> they take
> someone elses ideas and innovations, and incorporate them into their
> OS, and
> in a few cases putting the original company out of business.
>
> If anything... the Internet put MS in more homes!! The Internet has
> been
> around a lot longer than MS have... it just needed the 'killer' app
> to pull
> it into the foreground... and that was Netscape, not a MS product.
>
> I disagree they were 'responsible' for putting the Internet in our
> homes...
> their dominance in the market, and the constant bundling of
> applications has
> enabled more people to be able to access the Internet... I don't
> think
> 'responsible' is the right word. They weren't even going to worry
> about the
> passing fad... what a backflip that turned out to be!!!!
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:35, you wrote:
> > They were responsible for putting the Internet in the homes, which
> created
> > a large number of jobs.
> >
> > At 07:43 AM 9/26/2001 +1000, you wrote:
> > > > Look at all the good they have done.
> > >
> > >And what would that be? You listed all the things that they are
> already
> > >noted before?
> > >
> > >What good have they done? And please don't say Windows...
> because that
> > > idea just came from somewhere else!!! It was those said 'shady
> business
> > > practices' that got them where they are today... and have put so
> many
> > > other companies out of business, or stopped them being able to
> compete.
> >
> >
>
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