In the first few rollercoaster years of the Internet – long ago, far away, like around 1995 – there were any number of competing e-mail applications. Windows was ahead of the Macintosh OS in “bundling” a browser (Internet Explorer) and a basic e-mail client (Outlook Express), but considering the number of low- and no-cost applications for both Mac and Windows, this did not seem to matter too much

For someone who is fairly new to web hosting, choosing the platform you are going to use for your server can be a difficult and even mind-boggling decision. Although there are several obscure choices still available, the most widely used Operating Systems (OSs) are the enterprise, or server, versions of Linux and Windows.