[bb88]

Back in the 90s Microsoft had been rumored to be developing their own proprietary TCP replacement -- back when IIS was the king of the world.

They could have shut off a large portion of IIS traffic to those that weren't running Internet Explorer.

[mr_toad]

It might have worked if the majority of web servers had been Microsoft’s, but my recollection is they never got close to having the majority of the web server market.

The crown went from NCSA to Apache and then only recently to Nginx.

[bb88]

They had the majority of the corporate market at the time.

[tpmx]

Makes sense.

I guess they failed because they were too late to the web - Netscape ate their breakfast.

[Ericson2314]

Have anything to read on this?

[bb88]

Apparently, was more than just a rumor.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2002-June/00...

https://wiki.c2.com/?MicrosoftPalladium