I have never said that MS made anything, they stole ideas and rewrote
stuff, but they put it out there, marketed it, and people bought it. Before
that there were products that nobody knew about.
I remember Trumpet, it was a pain in the ass, but it worked after you
figured it out.
Sometimes making the system easy to use and more widely available and
recognizable is just as important if not more important than the actual
idea. If somebody hadn't put marketing money behind this technology it
wouldn't have taken off like it did. If people don't know your product
exists it might as well not exist at all.
No I don't think MS is responsible for bringing mp3 to the public. MS
didn't make the files easy to get and play. IRC, news groups, and winamp
did that (Napster was just and IRC bot at it base).
>But the tools for dial-up networking that STARTED the public looking at the
>Internet were already provided by a company other than MS prior to Windows
>95, and prior to OS3.1 Windows for Workgroups for that matter. It's another
>case of taking another product, rewriting it, and building it into the OS.
>MS get all the credit for tieing those tools into a wizard? But they weren't
>responsible for those tools. The people I think were responsible for
>todays's interest in the internet are the developers of the dial up tools
>before they were incorpoated into Windows, and Netscape. (I know Mosaic came
>first, paris, and I know Netscape didn't start the net)... but it was they
>that got people 'really' looking at the internet, and started the trend.
>When I first connected to the Internet... the only MS thing on the computer
>was the OS. None of the dial-up tools, browsing tools, hell, not even the
>TCP stack.. MS just wrote the cheque for the marketing, and watched the bank
>accounts grow from people who believed MS were oh so wonderful!!!
>
>Do you also think MS are responsible for bringing MP3 to the public, because
>they have a media player in the OS now?
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