He didn't say it was born on Windows, he said it grew up on windows. Per your quote: >In our case at Microsoft, I’ve always felt that, at least the definition

He didn't say it was born on Windows, he said it grew up on windows. Per your quote: >In our case at Microsoft, I’ve always felt that, at least the definition of a platform is: if something bigger than the platform can’t be born, then it’s not a platform. The web, it grew up on Windows. Think about it. If we said, “All of commerce is only mediated through us,” Amazon couldn’t exist, if we had somehow said, “We’re going to have our own commerce model.” That's hard to argue. AOL made it where Prodigy and Compuserve withered because it embraced the WWW on .... Windows. I would also agree that Microsoft didn't do much to have the web grow up on Windows; in fact they actively thwarted it in many ways including their embrace, extend extinguish strategy. They mistakenly believed that controlling the browser was the key to controlling the internet.