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Certainly. 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
by raganwald 17y ago
Certainly. 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.