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Microsoft's lost eight years online: More than $6 billion down the tubes
- zach 16y agoWhen MSN was created in the mid-nineties, AOL, flush with cash, prepared for a fight to the death with Microsoft. The rallying cry at AOL around that time was that "online services will be Microsoft's Vietnam." I believe it holds up as one of the best business metaphors of all time.