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How Microsoft 95 Became Microsoft 2005 | |
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| Time: 19:04 EST/00:04 GMT | News Source: eWeek | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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In 1995, Microsoft was in trouble. Big trouble. OS/2, despite its fans, was going nowhere. Windows 3.11 was, at best, a great GUI for running Microsoft Excel, but not a whole lot else. And then, as now, Apple owned the graphical desktop with the Mac. If that wasn't bad enough for Bill Gates and his pals, the Internet was turning out to be a much, much bigger deal than they had ever dreamed it was going to be: Netscape was already riding its browser to becoming, albeit briefly, a billion-dollar company. Many people today think that Microsoft led the way to the Web with Internet Explorer. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you can lay your hands on a copy of the first edition of Bill Gates' 1995 book, "The Road Ahead," you'll find that Bill didn't think that the Internet wasn't going to be that important at all. It was only after seeing Netscape rocket to the top that Microsoft's executives realized that they were missing the Internet bus. | ||
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| #1 By 931 (24.99.3.86) at 8/24/2005 9:09:34 PM |
| What a one sided warped view of history. |
| #2 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at 8/25/2005 9:17:13 AM |
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[Sarcasm On]
Yes, #2. Windows 3.1 was VERY competetive with the MacOS. It had all the same features, and never had resource issues of any kind. And Apple was never the #2 computer manufacturer in the world. [Sarcasm Off] TL |
| #3 By 32132 (207.81.85.238) at 8/25/2005 5:32:50 PM |
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#3 A very, very distant 2nd I guess.
[Reality On] From 1996: "Everyone knows Apple Computer Inc. has been bleeding money of late, but it also has been bleeding market share, where it hurts the most. The Cupertino-based computer maker lost 16.7 percent of its market share in the second quarter of 1996, compared with the same period the prior year, according to San Jose market researcher Dataquest Inc. Apple now owns 5.3 percent of the worldwide market, compared with 7.4 percent in 1995. In the mid-1980s, Apple's market share peaked at 11 percent." http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/1996/08/19/newscolumn3.html [Reality Off] :) |
| #4 By 32132 (207.81.85.238) at 8/25/2005 5:37:24 PM |
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#3 By the way Larry, the pink line way at the bottom is the Mac share of the PC market.
http://www.pegasus3d.com/totalshare5.gif Lets see ... C64 hit 40% of the market and the Mac never hit higher than 11%. Ouch! |
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