Bill Gates – Deposition Part 4 of 12(youtube.com)

3 pointsby _RPMvor 12 Jahren2 comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhdDZk45HDI

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Netscape was a threat because Microsoft could not control the web browser, so they countered by making Internet Explorer and then bundling it with Windows.

Java Microsoft made their own version of it, but made J++ and J# that compiled Java code to native code. Sun and others made APIs to it, and eventually Sun sued Microsoft and Microsoft abandoned J++ and J# and made C# in 2001/2002 to replace it with Java like syntax.

Java as a language was not a threat, Java as a platform in mobile devices and operating systems was a threat. Java was being developed into an operating system at the time for that Network Computer that used Netscape as a web browser.

You can see the worry on Gate's face and how he is thinking each question carefully before answering. It was all about what Gates can recall not what might be possible.

modzillavor 12 Jahren

Interesting. It seems like both threats were real – just not clearly realized in the market until recent years. Android is now a huge operating system written largely in java, and IE as a web browser has more or less been whittled away by chrome, firefox, and others.