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- From: xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Why did Microsoft abandon OS2?
- Message-ID: <n6fm=_=.xtifr@netcom.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:23:52 GMT
- References: <mg.711094287@elan> <ggyyNB1w164w@knex.Gwinnett.COM>
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- In <ggyyNB1w164w@knex.Gwinnett.COM> gess@knex.Gwinnett.COM (Gess Shankar) writes:
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- >mg@elan (Michael Golan) writes:
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- >> 3) IBM is now in the position it always wanted: Total control over the
- >> OS promises control over new Hardware & Standards. MS, on the other
- >> hand, can't make new hardware.
- >>
- >This has been the strength of Microsoft from clone makers' view-point.
- >If IBM uses this 'total control over OS' to exert control over hardware,
- >Microsoft will come out smelling like roses. This has been the fear of many
- >PC makers in embracing OS/2 and bundling OS/2 and so on.
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- The corrolary to this, OC, is that software vendors have probably been
- feeling unhappy about MS's domination of the PC OS market, since they
- (MS) also sell application software. So it's quite possible that a
- number of software vendors (e.g. Borland, Symantec, CA, Lotus) may jump
- on the OS/2 bandwagon, simply to try to get out from under MS's thumb.
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