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- From: jarober@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (DE Robertson james an 410-740-9172)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.114651.7235@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 11:46:51 GMT
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- soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn) writes:
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- >Well, actually, I don't believe MS do not have guts to develop for os/2 even
- >if it will make a lot of money for them, simply because MS
- >developing for os/2 seems to confirm the notion that os/2 is a viable
- >operating system. This would be the last thing MS would do. Then the
- >huge success of os/2 that is becoming more and more obvious nowadays seems
- >to signal the fate of MS in os/2 market
-
- >Min
-
- Get a grip. If this were tru, MS wouldn't be releasing MAC apps.
- MS down't release apps for OS/2 for the same reason that don't bother with
- the Amiga market - at this point, it's a marginal application market. It's
- used by a few Fortune 500 companies for vertical apps, but NOT by the
- mass market. If and when it sells as a mass market OS, MS will start
- developing for it.
-
- You didn't see too many 3rd party apps for Windows until 3.0, did you ?
- Same reason - no mass market appeal. This software shops are all the same,
- really - they're all out for the bucks.
-
- Jim Robertson
- jarober@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu
-