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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!dscope!jld
- From: jld@datascope.com (Jay L. Davis)
- Subject: Re: The Future of OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.163148.2787@datascope.com>
- Organization: Datascope Corp.
- References: <LJ6DoB1w164w@netlink.cts.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:31:48 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <LJ6DoB1w164w@netlink.cts.com> trekkie@netlink.cts.com (Bryce Newall) writes:
- >I have been seriously considering buying OS/2 v2.0 for about 2 weeks now.
- >However, I heard from a friend up in San Francisco that Microsoft will no
- >longer be licensing the code required for OS/2 to run Windows programs. In
- >effect, Microsoft is cutting their losses and trying to run IBM's operating
- >system into the ground. I would like to know if there is any truth to this,
- >'cause if there is, then I don't think I'd bother with OS/2, in spite of how
- >wonderful it sounds. Any comments?
- >
- > -- Trekkie
- >
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-
- Yes and No. Yes, Microsoft is trying to run OS/2 into the ground. But no
- they havn't stopped licensing windows code because they can't (legally).
- I don't know all the details (does anyone?) but IBM already has Windows 3.0
- support and will have 3.1 support soon. What about Windows 4.0? I don't
- know, but by then I expect it won't matter, real OS/2 apps will be available
- and you won't need Windows versions.
-
-
- ---Jay Davis
-