While Microsoft may have been "dragged kicking and screaming" to the specific $105 million figure mentioned in this article, a co-marketing arrangement that res

While Microsoft may have been "dragged kicking and screaming" to the specific $105 million figure mentioned in this article, a co-marketing arrangement that resulted in DEC endorsing Windows NT as a migration path for its significant but declining install base of UNIX and VMS server and workstation customers sounds like a win for Microsoft, not DEC. It also reminds me of the settlement of the DEC v. Intel lawsuit the next year that resulted in Intel buying out DEC's semiconductor operations and DEC endorsing IA-64. If nothing else, the DEC/Microsoft alliance eventually resulted in a promotional copy of OpenVMS and Windows NT Integration for Dummies[1] showing up in my mailbox, which as I recall was both amusing (the book's name) and informative (its contents) at the time. [1] https://archive.org/details/openvmswindowsnt0000jimm/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/openvmswindowsnt0000jimm/mode/2u...