The whole point of my examples was just to point our that Microsoft did not pioneer the technologies or contribute to their initial development.<br><br>Computers were in the use by the military in the early 50th, with some rudimentary form of data entry. Maybe the military was the real pioneer after all. And the person who invented the difference engine.<br>
<br>Anyway, it also depends on adoption. I know millions of people used Netscape Navigator in the early days of internet but I can&#39;t tell who really was using NCSA Mosaic apart from the folks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign.<br>