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]]> http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/06/19/innovation-insights-and-how-microsoft-enabled-the-internet-from-technologist-dan-rosen/comment-page-1/#comment-84761 harry mangalam Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:33:18 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=30349#comment-84761 I agree with the previous poster - esp. the quote:“What really enabled the Internet was Windows 95. Microsoft standardized the TCP/IP stack.” The Internet was already well underway when W95 came about. W95 is widely regarded as a dripping bag of dog mess, especially where networking is concerned. I remember it pretty clearly - that was when I was forced to convert to Linux in order to have a development platform that didn't explode every few minutes. If MS standardized anything having to do with TCP/IP, it did so by buying a BSD-derived networking stack called Streams that it later frankenstein'ed into Windows. This is widely published. Do you not verify anything your your interviewees tell you? I agree with the previous poster – esp. the quote:“What really enabled the Internet was Windows 95. Microsoft standardized the TCP/IP stack.” The Internet was already well underway when W95 came about. W95 is widely regarded as a dripping bag of dog mess, especially where networking is concerned. I remember it pretty clearly – that was when I was forced to convert to Linux in order to have a development platform that didn’t explode every few minutes.
If MS standardized anything having to do with TCP/IP, it did so by buying a BSD-derived networking stack called Streams that it later frankenstein’ed into Windows. This is widely published.
Do you not verify anything your your interviewees tell you?

]]> http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/06/19/innovation-insights-and-how-microsoft-enabled-the-internet-from-technologist-dan-rosen/comment-page-1/#comment-67457 Morgan Belford Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:40:44 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=30349#comment-67457 Most of the statements by Rosen about Microsoft don't even make any sense. It is like he wasn't even there. DOS to Windows: cannibalization? Brave? TCP/IP stack on Windows 95? "The Internet" forced that to happen, not the other way around. Dan, like other MS execs of the period, is just trying to make himself feel better about the fact that MS, an innovation wasteland, played catch up to the web industry for 10 years, and only obtained dominance by giving away almost every product it copied (web server, application server, browser, etc) for free. Most of the statements by Rosen about Microsoft don’t even make any sense. It is like he wasn’t even there. DOS to Windows: cannibalization? Brave? TCP/IP stack on Windows 95? “The Internet” forced that to happen, not the other way around. Dan, like other MS execs of the period, is just trying to make himself feel better about the fact that MS, an innovation wasteland, played catch up to the web industry for 10 years, and only obtained dominance by giving away almost every product it copied (web server, application server, browser, etc) for free.

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