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Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web 
GigaOM | by Kevin Kelleher | Sat, Jan 30
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For 15 years, Microsoft has tried time and again to become a major player on the web. It started by integrating an AOL-like dial-up content service in Windows 95. It shifted to a Yahoo-like web portal model three years later. In the search era, it designed search engine after search engine, cu...
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Admit It, Microsoft: You Suck at the Web
For 15 years, Microsoft has tried time and again to become a major player on the web. It started by integrating an AOL-like dial-up content service in Windows 95. It shifted to a Yahoo-like web portal model three years later. In the search era, it designed search engine after search engine, cu...
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