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You are living in denial when you claim that the web would have never taken off were it not for Microsoft, especially when it was/is probably the biggest threat
by iboga 14y ago
You are living in denial when you claim that the web would have never taken off were it not for Microsoft, especially when it was/is probably the biggest threat to the open web we now know. Every possible alternative OS would have been at least as capable of propelling the web, probably more so as katbyte points out.
Your argument is about the same as telling North Korean citizens they have to thank the Dear Leader for the good things they have. Technically correct but horribly lacking in perspective.
- jacquesm 14y ago> You are living in denial when you claim that the web would have never taken off were it not for Microsoft Reading comprehension fail. I said that the web took off when and in the way it did in part because of microsoft, not that it would not have happened without microsoft.
- iboga 14y ago> If microsoft had not shipped a couple of hundred million graphics terminals the web would have never taken off. I don’t even...
- sbuk 14y agoLike it or not, Microsoft totally dominated the home computer market in the 1990's, which is when the internet began to take hold. I'm no Microsoft fan, but to deny that they has a significant impact on the adoption of the web as we know it today is extremely short sighted. I suppose that you may be too young to remember of course...