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This is not really a fair recollection of the events. Things like NT for Alpha were not successful not because MS wasn't "serious" about it, but just by the fac
by CoreyH144 16y ago
This is not really a fair recollection of the events. Things like NT for Alpha were not successful not because MS wasn't "serious" about it, but just by the fact that it didn't sell. Those architectures just weren't commercially viable. The products themselves were basically the same (and impervious to not being "serious") because of the investment they made in maintaining a microkernel that wasn't tied to x86.
- iuguy 16y agoThis is closer to the mark. I remember rebuilding an NT 4.0 server on x86 after Microsoft dropped Service Pack support for Mips after SP1. We'd been sold a right lemon by the vendor who obviously must've known that about 3 months after NT4 ships Microsoft announced they were dropping MIPS. In the end, instead of buying more expensive IRIX kit or facing the political fallout from going back to Novell my then employer decided to grit teeth and go x86/NT4.