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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by bb88 on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @03:04PM (#24711488)
Back in the 90s Microsoft had been rumored to be developing their own proprietary TCP replacement -- back when IIS was the king of the world.

They could have shut off a large portion of IIS traffic to those that weren't running Internet Explorer.

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by mr_toad on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @08:32PM (#24714438)
It might have worked if the majority of web servers had been Microsoft’s, but my recollection is they never got close to having the majority of the web server market.

The crown went from NCSA to Apache and then only recently to Nginx.

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by bb88 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:15PM (#24724514)
They had the majority of the corporate market at the time.
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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by tpmx on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @03:06PM (#24711507)
Makes sense.

I guess they failed because they were too late to the web - Netscape ate their breakfast.

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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by Ericson2314 on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @03:30PM (#24711764)
Have anything to read on this?
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Re:Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC by bb88 on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:27PM (#24724607)
Apparently, was more than just a rumor.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2002-June/00...

https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftPalladium

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