On 2006-07-12, Tim Smith <reply_in_group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <10221958.36AVsFFUy9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| "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"
>> `----
>
> Nonsense. OS/2 lost because IBM didn't even *try* to seriously market it,
> and they provided very poor support for developers.
>
> On the marketing side, IBM did little or no in-store promotional efforts,
> leaving OS/2 to rot on the bottom shelf in the darkest corner of the most
> remote aisle. Where were the endcaps? No where--because that would require
> spending money to promote OS/2. Where was the co-marketing programs to help
> OS/2 developers get their products on the shelves? No where--that would
> require spending money on OS/2.
>
> On the developer side, to get into IBM's developer program, you had to fill
> out a long application, and then if they deemed you worthly, you could spend
> a lot of money to get the SDK. To get started in Windows development, on
> the other hand, all you had to do was walk into any major software store
> with a couple hundred bucks in hand, and you could walk out with developer
> tools and a copy of the MSDN Library. You didn't have to beg Microsoft for
> permission to develop for Windows. It was actually cheaper and easier to
> become a Windows 95 developer *before* *launch* than it was to become an
> OS/2 developer long after OS/2 was on sale to the public.
>
> MS has done a lot of bad things, but OS/2's demise isn't one of them. That
> was killed by IBM's indifference.
PC Magazine had a hand in it too, influenced by MS. MS wasn't innocent.
At least IBM seems to be behind Linux more than they were behind OS/2.
I'm still hoping for the WPS on Linux..
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