No it really wasn't. If you want to understand the mindset at the time, it was all about hardware drivers. The only thing that mattered was hardware drivers, a

No it really wasn't. If you want to understand the mindset at the time, it was all about hardware drivers. The only thing that mattered was hardware drivers, and the hardware manufacturers created drivers for dos/windos and nothing else at all. Drivers was one of the primary challenges holding back any competition to MS. True also of OS/2. OS/2 was seen as a solid architecture, but it arrived without a GUI, right at the time that the GUI became the key feature needed in any OS. It didn't take long for the Presentation Manager GUI to arrive, but it was nothing exciting. The other thing seen as an issue at the time was that OS/2 was built for the rather terrible 80286 when really what was needed was full 32 bit 80386 support. It eventually got the 32 bit support but this was a bad start. Microsoft released Word and Excel for OS/2 then discontinued them. That was the finish of OS/2.