I imagine some OS/2 tech got into NT, but I think, in general, this is, in general, false that Microsoft turned OS/2 into their flagship OS, untrue. Windows as

I imagine some OS/2 tech got into NT, but I think, in general, this is, in general, false that Microsoft turned OS/2 into their flagship OS, untrue. Windows as we know it didn't technically exist before Cutler and his team developed it at Digital. Somewhere at Digital in the middle 1990's Cutler and team invented an OS and Digital wasn't interested in it. Cutler took his work and his team to Microsoft in late 1998, and the work he brought with him from Digital became Windows NT4.x (not sure when assimilation was first completed) and 2K, XP, Server, 7, 10, etc. The Windows that Microsoft developed prior to Cutler's arrival only bears visual resemblance to previous Windows versions. Windows 1,2,3,95,98 & ME were the products of that previous development, while late NT4, 2K, XP, Server(s), 7, 10, & 11 are instead the direct descendants of the OS Cutler developed at Digital.