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From: keating@rex.cs.tulane.edu (John W. Keating)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS2 under IBM's control ~ How will this affect third parties?
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Date: 21 Sep 90 00:01:54 GMT
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Okay, Microsoft and IBM had their conferences and it now appears that
Microsoft is not going to have much say in the OS2 world compared to
IBM.  What will this mean for those of us who don't have IBM machines?
Is IBM going to try to make the OS so IBM-machine specific that those of us
with el-cheapo clones won't be able to effectively use it?  Will a
standard edition 2.0 come out too?

(Me wonders what Microsoft had in mind when giving up control to this
operating system...  Seems to me that DOS is dying (Yes, I know of the huge
existing user base for DOS, but...), and they would be trying to push OS2.
Makes one wonder what special features they are going to put in MSDOS 5.0?)

    JWKIII