Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 16th Dec 2006 16:56 UTC, submitted by Governa
OSNews, Generic OSes eWeek's Peter Coffee has compiled his idea of the 25 killer applications of all time. "Microsoft's Vista has widely inspired the 'Why do I need that?' question, which past 'killer applications' have answered in different ways for different platforms during three decades of personal computing."
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IIS and its precursors
by NotParker on Sat 16th Dec 2006 17:44 UTC
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2006-06-01

IIS and its precursors.

When Netscape was trying to make money off of its webserver, Microsoft gave one away one that worked on Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.

RE: IIS and its precursors
by Kroc on Sat 16th Dec 2006 17:49 in reply to "IIS and its precursors"
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2005-11-10

Which they then left to rot until v7. Wait, I've seen that pattern somewhere else...

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RE[2]: IIS and its precursors
by twenex on Sat 16th Dec 2006 17:50 in reply to "RE: IIS and its precursors"
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2006-04-21

Ah. THAT's why they took ages to cotton onto the InterRot.

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RE: IIS and its precursors
by twenex on Sat 16th Dec 2006 17:49 in reply to "IIS and its precursors"
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2006-04-21

Well, then you'd have to let Apache in, too.

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