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Well, MSN launched in August 95 and the tidal wave memo was from May 95. My recollection from the time was that (a) it was clear that this was intended to be a
by doctor_eval 4y ago
Well, MSN launched in August 95 and the tidal wave memo was from May 95.
My recollection from the time was that (a) it was clear that this was intended to be an “embrace and extend” play by MS, against the whole internet (!!) and (b) the tidal wave memo was taken to be acceptance that this previously successful strategy was too late. So MS shut down MSN and repurposed the name.
Gates seemed to believe that he could beat the WWW and he set out to do so. He considered it competition, so he didn’t mention it in interviews.
- uni_rule 4y agoOn a similar note I always found it odd that the 1996 copy of Encarta completely omitted any mention of http on it's article for the internet. I thought it was just the material being a bit old or out of touch. I suppose that was also partly because IE4 wasn't part of the OS yet so "the web" wasn't truly ubiquitous within MS quite yet.