[Question_Assumptions]

Windows was written before computers were commonly networked to the Internet. And contrary to popular mythology that Microsoft helped the Internet explosion, let's not forget that Microsoft launched MSN as a proprietary network and one needed 3rd party Windows TCP/IP socket software (like Trumpet WinSock) to even connect to TCP/IP networks until Microsoft was dragged kicking and screaming to the conclusion that they couldn't control the Internet and added their own socket support.

[Uri’el-2012]

Windows was written before computers were commonly networked to the Internet...........

34 posted on 08/24/2006 9:22:05 AM MDT by Question_Assumptions

Thats not quite true.

Personal computers perhaps,
but computers had been networked to Arpanet for decades prior to Windows