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TechWeb: The top stories that didn’t happen in 1998

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 26, 1998

NT’s conquest of UNIX is the #7 “didn’t happen” story–Guess
what stopped it?

What Didn’t Happen?

  1. Apple Hires CEO
  2. Dozens Of Domain Names
  3. TV Tuners In Computers
  4. Portals Slay AOL
  5. The Rise Of Thin Clients
  6. Entertainment: The Killer App
  7. NT 5.0 Rolls Over Unix

    “Part of the difficulty here was… It’s tough to win with a
    product that’s hardly in beta. But the rest of the story is the
    gains made against Win NT by… Linux.”

Complete
story
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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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