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I went from Apple to Microsoft in 1995 partially because Microsoft was so far ahead of Apple on the Internet. At the time, Apple was entirely concerned with pro
by wrs 2y ago
I went from Apple to Microsoft in 1995 partially because Microsoft was so far ahead of Apple on the Internet. At the time, Apple was entirely concerned with promoting eWorld. (Ironic because Apple had a /8 IP allocation and was processing something like a quarter of Usenet traffic well before this.) They both had to get out of their walled garden “compete with AOL” models, but MSFT did it faster.
- thomassmith65 2y agoThe other problem with the Mac in those years was that there was no decent web browser. Windows MSIE eventually surpassed the usability, functionality and popularity of Netscape, but Microsoft's Mac version of MSIE did not. In the late 1990s, many websites did not render or function correctly on Macintosh.