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In a YouTube video about the history of OS/2, I learned that ole Microsoft back in the 1990s before their mob tactics were curtailed, used to send suited thugs

In a YouTube video about the history of OS/2, I learned that ole Microsoft back in the 1990s before their mob tactics were curtailed, used to send suited thugs to Japanese PC manufacturers to chastise them for even offering users the mere option of buying PCs with OS/2 instead of Windows.. Could such practices have stifled the innovation and growth within the Japanese PC industry? They did have some takes of their own on the PC platform with that unique Japanese flavor, in series like the PC-8800/PC-98, FM Towns, etc.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-8800_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-8800_series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-98 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Towns https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_Towns Who knows what more they could've done if Windows 95 hadn't smothered everything under the sun? Like the ill-deserved demise of the Commodore Amiga, this seems like a failure of politics than merit.

FMecha 2y ago
>In a YouTube video about the history of OS/2, I learned that ole Microsoft back in the 1990s before their mob tactics were curtailed, used to send suited thugs to Japanese PC manufacturers to chastise them for even offering users the mere option of buying PCs with OS/2 instead of Windows.. That, out of context, gives an impression-implication of Microsoft's Japanese operations having ties with the yakuza. And for PC-98 and FM Towns, versions of Windows were available for them (with FM Towns' uniqueness diminishing gradually as Fujitsu embraced DOS/V).