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That's funny. Is there a particular story to share? Do you have a link or source?
by snprbob86 17y ago
That's funny. Is there a particular story to share? Do you have a link or source?
- Alex3917 17y agoI can't find the story in his blog archives so I'm going to assume it's not public, but it is a real story. The funny thing is his competitors got back at him by renting his exact same office after he sold the biz. This way they were getting a good chunk if his mail to use for leads!
- raganwald 17y agoCertainly. Microsoft announced that OS/2 was the future and watched as Lotus and Wordperfect spent millions porting their apps to the new oS. Then they cobbled Windows 3.x together and ported their own apps to that instead of OS/2. (The wikiedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#Breakup http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2#Breakup makes no mention of the effect of Windows 3.0 on Lotus and Wordperfect.)
- doty 17y agoThis was not actual Microsoft strategy; until the Windows team destroyed OS/2 Microsoft had every intention of making OS/2 the future. Windows was really just a project that refused to be killed until it won.