They've come a long way from the days when the entire site resided on a single server under one employee's desk that would crash whenever somebody accidentally kicked it. Evolution of a Web site Click on the icons to bring up images of the Microsoft site at different stages in its development. Unlike with IE 4.0, users will not be downloading megabytes of applications at a time, but will instead be looking for product and upgrade information and support. Still, Microsoft is taking no chances. Consider the magnitude of the site already.
International audiences make up the fastest growing group of users.
New content is posted to the site eight times a day. These are heady statistics for a team that little over a year ago thought 50,000 visitors a day was an incredible audience. And he's not kidding. The Internet, he wrote, was to become the focus of everything Microsoft did. In 1995, he announced this new focus to the world at Fall Comdex in Las Vegas.