The thing about DESQview is that, by 1995, running Linux with X as a desktop OS was viable. So, for people who wanted X, they could get it as a native client in

The thing about DESQview is that, by 1995, running Linux with X as a desktop OS was viable. So, for people who wanted X, they could get it as a native client in Linux for free. Linux also had pretty good support for Windows applications via Wine. It’s the same position Coherent was in; sure, it was cool technology at the time, but Linux was also available and was underselling the competition. The only PC OS anyone was paying money for in 1995 was Windows 95 or Windows NT; Windows 95 had killed OS/2 Warp at this point, and proprietary UNIX and UNIX-like stuff on PCs was already being edged out by Linux.