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"Barbarians Led by Bill Gates" has a good overview of the internal power struggle over their online stagey at this juncture. They largely resisted the wider int

• kragen 4y ago
  reading the tidal wave memo i linked, it sounds like microsoft just didn't take software seriously unless it was a commercial product in the 'server' category the competitors they were talking about for http servers were bsd (which i think means bsd/os from bsdi, because they're talking about it as if it were a company), sun, netscape, lotus, novell, and at&t linux, freebsd, and ncsa httpd were not even on their radar, even though yahoo was, and yahoo was mostly running on freebsd at that point iirc let me remind you that we're talking about may 01995, not 01992. in the first netcraft server survey that july https://news.netcraft.com/archives/1996/08/01/the_first_year_august_1995_august_1996.html https://news.netcraft.com/archives/1996/08/01/the_first_year... they found 57% of the 18957 web servers were running ncsa httpd and 20% were running cern httpd. apache had started a few months ago and was only running on 658 servers at that point so it's not surprising it wasn't on their radar i had friends and family who'd been running linux since 01992 and who had used it to set up isps and email setups and stuff, its capabilities were leaps and bounds ahead of microsoft's products at the time if you could get it working