Around 1993, Microsoft began talking to cable companies to make something called "Cablesoft." The ideas was, the internet was slow, clunky, and untrusted for things like commerce. Cable was fast, Microsoft had great tech, they were going to create a corporate "information superhighway" to replace

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A historical anecdote about Microsoft's 1993 Cablesoft initiative to create a corporate information superhighway over cable TV.

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Around 1993, Microsoft began talking to cable companies to make something called "Cablesoft." The ideas was, the internet was slow, clunky, and untrusted for things like commerce. Cable was fast, Microsoft had great tech, they were going to create a corporate "information superhighway" to replace

Around 1993, Microsoft began talking to cable companies to make something called "Cablesoft." The ideas was, the internet was slow, clunky, and untrusted for things like commerce. Cable was fast, Microsoft had great tech, they were going to create a corporate "information superhighway" to replace