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No Microsoft.com? Late to the party?
by TwistedWeasel 13y ago
No Microsoft.com? Late to the party?
- pjvds 13y agoIndeed, interesting to known why. The domain came online at May 2, 1991.
- alextingle 13y agoMicrosoft have always been followers, not leaders. The Internet was just a curiosity, of interest mainly to academics before the early 90s.
- futileboy 13y agoThey were late to the internet party all around. But when they did decide to get on the ball they put a lot of the leaders out of business by finally putting the TCP/IP stack in the OS. Which really was a good idea in the early 90s.
- wiml 13y agoMicrosoft took quite a while to start paying attention to this hippie / academic Internet thing. They were pretty late to the party.
- nisse72 13y agoOf course, when they decided to release "Internet Explorer for Unix" (IIRC, for SunOS and HPUX) in about 1997, coming late didn't prevent them from marketing it with a widely ridiculed phrase along the lines of "Bringing the Internet to Unix".