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A comment on Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Design (1983). Parent comment
Gates' vision of the internet was that people would connect to it once a day - maybe - to download their e-mail to read offline on a desktop PC.
It's why Microsoft went whole hog into Encarta. Gates believed the future of information was subscribing to encyclopedia CDROM updates by mail.
Windows didn't even get networking until 1992, almost a decade after the Macintosh had it.
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Gates' vision of the internet was that people would connect to it once a day - maybe - to download their e-mail to read offline on a desktop PC.
It's why Microsoft went whole hog into Encarta. Gates believed the future of information was subscribing to encyclopedia CDROM updates by mail.
Windows didn't even get networking until 1992, almost a decade after the Macintosh had it.