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A bit of razzle dazzle, but look under the covers and technology moves very slowly in computing.

Microsoft's denial of the Internet was a fact and it doesn't really matter whether you believe Bill gates said it or not, the network protocols they implemented, when they could have used a TCP/IP stack many years earlier. Ok, they created IE in a hurry and tacked on a TCP/IP stack, but that was only used to access what everyone calls "The Cloud" these days.

In reality, it took Microsoft much more than a decade to recover from that initial denial of the Internet as the future of networking, and you could well argue that their application protocols still suffer the legacy of that decision (designed for LAN not WAN).