Re: " 20-page memo"
I'm still not clear why the web browser has effectively become the new OS, sitting of course on top of the real OS.
That was the worry Microsoft had with Netscape, that it might become a competitor to Windows. You could run applications on the browser and if that became popular Windows might be ignored or sidelined. It got so bad that as Wired published in their article:
According to an America Online internal email, Gates asked an AOL executive in January 1996, “How much do we need to pay you to screw Netscape?” by designating Internet Explorer as AOL’s featured browser.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
