Friday, September 23, 2005

Microsoft's nightmare inches closer to reality

CNET News.com: "As early as May 1995, three months before Netscape Communications' initial public offering sparked the dot-com boom, Microsoft executives were worried that the nascent World Wide Web could one day become a significant threat to the Windows franchise.
In an extensive memo called 'The Web is the Next Platform' that was introduced as evidence in Microsoft's antitrust trial five years ago, Microsoft engineer Ben Slivka described a 'nightmare' scenario for the software giant."

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