Samurai, Windows For Workgroups had networking --- wasn't that 3.11? I forget.
But if you mean real networking, as in MS realised that whatever it did wasn't going to kick TCP/IP anywhere, then you could well be right.
But stretching the product? Their imperative is changing it so we buy the new version, that's all. It's not demand led. It's not as if we're queueing up at MS's door begging for a new OS because what we have already doesn't do what we want.
Doesn't it do what we want just fine?
And yes, the IBM RS-6000s I used to run almost never required a reboot: they would run for years. |