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Back in the 90s Microsoft had been rumored to be developing their own proprietary TCP replacement -- back when IIS was the king of the world. They could have s
by bb88 6y ago
Back in the 90s Microsoft had been rumored to be developing their own proprietary TCP replacement -- back when IIS was the king of the world.
They could have shut off a large portion of IIS traffic to those that weren't running Internet Explorer.
- tpmx 6y agoMakes sense. I guess they failed because they were too late to the web - Netscape ate their breakfast.
- Ericson2314 6y agoHave anything to read on this?
- bb88 6y agoApparently, was more than just a rumor. https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2002-June/002456.html https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2002-June/00... https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftPalladium https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftPalladium
- mr_toad 6y agoIt might have worked if the majority of web servers had been Microsoft’s, but my recollection is they never got close to having the majority of the web server market. The crown went from NCSA to Apache and then only recently to Nginx.
- bb88 6y agoThey had the majority of the corporate market at the time.