Microsoft Volume I

10664.731 - 10688.122 Steve Ballmer

And at the same time, Microsoft basically knew establishing a platform is brutal and requires bootstrapping a multi-sided network of developers, users, and PC manufacturers. And so 3.1 had users excited, but it was still very early. They could have lost that throne. Developers were not really yet targeting Windows. Microsoft sort of had to show, we make great applications for Windows too.