How AOL Beat Microsoft: Messenger Wars!

The amazing story of how Microsoft and AOL went head to head in an escalating arms race of reverse engineering as Microsoft tried desperately to make its messenger client compatible with AOL, all while AOL tried to prevent it at any cost! As told by retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer.

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Errata: Although I said that Win95 didn't ship with a TCP/IP stack, it actually did include one, thanks largely to the efforts of J Allard, but it was not installed by default if a NIC was not present.

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