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John Dvorak, quoted on http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroot...: "
by jejones3141 13y ago
John Dvorak, quoted on http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroots_an.html http://worldcadaccess.typepad.com/gizmos/2005/11/2_grassroot...:
"Some years back, Microsoft practiced a lot of dirty tricks using online mavens to go into forums and create Web sites extolling the virtues of Windows over OS/2. They were dubbed the Microsoft Munchkins, and it was obvious who they were and what they were up to. But their numbers and energy (and they way they joined forces with nonaligned dummies who liked to pile on) proved too much for IBM marketers, and Windows won the operating-system war through fifth-column tactics."
Also, googling "Steve Barkto" will turn up interesting information.
- seanmcdirmid 13y agoI wouldn't know. Back then I was working for IBM on OS/2 in Boca Raton, in, as I was told, the very office space that Microsoft vacated a few years earlier when the NT/OS/2 collaboration broke down. But if I had to choose between IBM and Microsoft, I think Microsoft wins as the more ethical company. IBM seemed like a very shady place to work business practice wise. And no one is talking about IBM these days on HN, unless they happen to do something like Watson occasionally.
- yuhong 13y agothe very office space that Microsoft vacated a few years earlier when the NT/OS/2 collaboration broke down After MS has already sent the original OS/2 2.0 SDKs to developers. I wrote a blog post about this entire fiasco you should read: http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-px00307-and-dr.html http://yuhongbao.blogspot.ca/2012/12/about-ms-os2-20-fiasco-...