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Aaron Skonnard wrote: > >... > > Don't read too much into "made it happen". I was using Champion's term > from the previous email. More precisely: the Web didn't fully penetrate > society until the major vendors got behind it. It was doubling in size every year. Eventually a got big enough that the big vendors couldn't afford to avoid it (though they tried!). Remember that IBM's view of the hypertext future was Notes and Microsoft's was BlackBird. They went with the Web because otherwise they would have been irrelevant, not the other way around. 'The decision, announced earlier this month, puts an end to one of the on-line industry's most infamous "shadow" products, one that was expected to be Microsoft's secret weapon against on-line services, such as America Online, as well as the World Wide Web itself.' Now they get credit for "making it happen." Amazing! Paul Prescod
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