There is always an 100 different stores when corporations break up. The reality seems to be that MS kind of wanted something more lightweight that could be sol

There is always an 100 different stores when corporations break up. The reality seems to be that MS kind of wanted something more lightweight that could be sold to existing pc owners, where as IBM was happy to just push the requirements to the point where OS/2 would require an fairly high end system(preferably an PS/2 from IBM to run). For some markets where the expensive PS/2 systems were not considered too expensive as in the case of banks and the like OS/2 sold well enough for IBM to profit off it. But the wider market went with the less hardware hungry and at least initially less capable windows. If i recall correctly NT was slow to mature into an mainstream OS and did not really start replacing OS/2 until the late 90ies and only really took of for consumers when XP were released.