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Fro me, DESQview. Microsoft tried to buy it in order to use its tech in their windows system. I wonder how things would be today if they were able to purchase
by jmclnx 1y ago
Fro me, DESQview. Microsoft tried to buy it in order to use its tech in their windows system. I wonder how things would be today if they were able to purchase it. But DESQview said "no".
Instead it went into a slow death spiral due to Windows 95.
- Froedlich 1y agoDESQview/X sucked the wind out of DESQview's sails. It was, on paper, a massive upgrade. I had been running DESQview for years, with a dial-up BBS in the background. But you couldn't actually buy /X. After trying to buy a copy, my publisher even contacted DESQ's marketing people to get a copy for me, and they wouldn't turn one over. Supposedly there were some copies actually sold, but too few, too late, and then /X was dropped. There was at least one more release of plain DESQview after that, but by then Windows was eating its lunch.
- chipx86 1y agoLove seeing this one. My uncle was co-founder of Quarterdeck, and I grew up in a world of DESQview and QEMM. It was a big influence on me as a child. Got a good family story about that whole acquisition attempt, but I don't want to speak publicly on behalf of my uncle. I know we've talked at length about the what-ifs of that moment. I do have a scattering of some neat Quarterdeck memorabilia I can share, though: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0ca1omn2kwda9op5go34e/ACpO6bz7nNFM8b9yzn4mS_o?rlkey=kyeiljpm7d2l7q5nvvuzbi6wc&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/0ca1omn2kwda9op5go34e/ACpO6bz...
- abdulhaq 1y agoI loved the Quarterdeck stuff especially Desqview