Comment by thomassmith65

Gates wrote his 'internet tidal wave' email mid 1995 (https://wired.com/2010/05/0526bill-gates-internet-memo/) which was only two years after Berners-Lee publicly released Mosaic.

By the late 1990s, Microsoft's competition (including Netscape and Apple) were nearly dead. In fact, the browser that Apple originally shipped with OS X was M$ Internet Explorer.

Gates was several months late to the web, but it's not like he missed the boat.