Not only is it incomprehensible, it's factually inaccurate. According to Eckel, IE came along after Google, which is funny considering Microsoft got sued for bundling IE before Google was even incorporated.
He also asserts that IE started the browser wars. As I recall, there was competition from the very beginning, with Netscape Navigator battling with NCSA mosaic. And even upon the advent of IE, you've got to turn your sites toward AOL as well.
> But [MS .Net is] not revolutionary as Java was (by introducing the virtual machine, garbage collection and unified error reporting into the programming mainstream).
which is odd, because Visual Basic had been running a bytecode interpreter with garbage collection since 1991.
