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Also, "make the web totally OS agnostic"? Clutches pearls how will Microsoft control the web if any old operating system is allowed to access it!?
by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Also, "make the web totally OS agnostic"? Clutches pearls how will Microsoft control the web if any old operating system is allowed to access it!?
- pjmlp 4y agoBy making everyone install their own browser, including shipping applications with the whole browser alongside the application. /s
- nequo 4y agoThis did end up happening though (although not so much due to Java as to JavaScript etc.). It was important for Microsoft to anticipate this and pivot from relying too much on Windows on the desktop. And they tried pivoting left and right with the Xbox, Azure, .NET, their early tablets (which Steve Jobs famously discounted because they needed a stylus) and so on.
- pjmlp 4y agoIn fact, one of the reasons Windows is getting so messed up is that everyone that cares about their career is now on those business units, with Azure playing the role of "Cloud OS". Leaving Windows to younger generations without background on why things are the way they are, and feel like they need to rewrite everything to leave their mark.