Incredible preservation work. Reading Gates talk about Netscape's 70% market share and worrying about being commoditized by browser APIs feels almost prophetic given how browser-based computing actually played out. The part where he mentions finding zero Word docs or AVIs after 10 hours of browsing really shows how completly Microsoft underestimated how fast network standards would shift power away from desktop file formats.
100% - One of the main take-aways from my tech capabilities was him mentioning a large amount of limitations, XR, VR and 3D computing. We're only just about seeing the rise of these capabilities properly in browsers now, so the impact was a good 30 years predicted!
I think it also show's an incredible capability of change. You'd struggle now to find a document sent by a coworker that isn't one of Microsoft's formats, for better or for worse.
Incredible preservation work. Reading Gates talk about Netscape's 70% market share and worrying about being commoditized by browser APIs feels almost prophetic given how browser-based computing actually played out. The part where he mentions finding zero Word docs or AVIs after 10 hours of browsing really shows how completly Microsoft underestimated how fast network standards would shift power away from desktop file formats.
100% - One of the main take-aways from my tech capabilities was him mentioning a large amount of limitations, XR, VR and 3D computing. We're only just about seeing the rise of these capabilities properly in browsers now, so the impact was a good 30 years predicted!
I think it also show's an incredible capability of change. You'd struggle now to find a document sent by a coworker that isn't one of Microsoft's formats, for better or for worse.