Further info in the press release from then. It was part of MS' strategy to get on top of the race on who should control users private information. At the same time Firefly had had a cooperation with Netscape about setting standards within W3C on how to store private information. Guess MS wanted to undermine that as well.
Further info in the press release from then. It was part of MS' strategy to get on top of the race on who should control users private information. At the same time Firefly had had a cooperation with Netscape about setting standards within W3C on how to store private information. Guess MS wanted to undermine that as well.
It is the other way around - Microsoft buys Firefly Passport in april 1998 and Hotmail in december 1998.