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Not disputing the truth of many aspects of these comments - but there were a lot of ethically dubious practices on MS' behalf as well that went into the eventual demise of OS/2. DevKit issues could have been resolved - even marketing was beginning to show some progress.
Sad - it wasn't until more than 5 years later that I finally got a Windows PC with an operating system that even came close to the stability of OS/2.
On 2013-07-01, at 10:44 AM, Jim Oberholtzer<midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Exactly! OS/2 was so superior that it would have easily have won the
> battle, except for what Dan just pointed out.
> > Jim Oberholtzer
> Chief Technical Architect
> Agile Technology Architects
> > > On 7/1/2013 9:16 AM, Dan Kimmel wrote:>> The real reason Windows succeeded and OS/2 didn't: Microsoft gave their devkit away, IBM wanted something like $6000 for theirs.> --
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