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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by Someone on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:59AM (#29825194)
> Smartcards were never MS's target market

https://techmonitor.ai/technology/microsoft_to_slash_smart_c...: “Microsoft Corp has plunged into the smart card market with an operating systems that will compete with existing systems such as MultOS and Java Card

[…]

Microsoft’s Smart Cards for Windows is an 8-bit operating system with 8K of ROM”

That was October 1998. About a year later, there was https://news.microsoft.com/1999/11/15/microsoft-delivers-win...

I don’t think that went far, but they certainly tried.

Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by samus on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:54AM (#29826032)
Entering existing markets is not easy at all if the newcomers don't have significant advantages.