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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by chrisco255 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:48AM (#29825929)
Why? The email is from 1996. Gates wasn't worried about platforms that didn't exist in 1996.
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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by rchaud on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:47PM (#29827967)
The consumer web absolutely existed in '96. Gates was worried that Java could become the defacto choice for authoring web applications. Microsoft didn't have much of a foothold there at the time.
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