Indeed. In fact it was J Allard's[0] 1994 memo "Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet" that caught the attention of Bill Gates. Before then it wa

Indeed. In fact it was J Allard's[0] 1994 memo "Windows: The Next Killer Application on the Internet" that caught the attention of Bill Gates. Before then it was clear many (most? everyone else?) at Microsoft didn't see the potential of the internet. It was his memo that lead to reshaping Microsoft's direction with Windows and the internet with the inclusion of TCP/IP in Windows 95. Allard went on to be a key member of the original Xbox launch team and Xbox Live. Unfortunately a lot of what he worked on post-Xbox was not as successful and he left Microsoft around a decade ago. Since then he hasn't been involved in much of note, or at least nothing to the same scale and impact as his earlier work. Although topping his internet memo and the launch of Xbox and Xbox Live is pretty hard to do to be fair :) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Allard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Allard