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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Query:  Which would you recommend?  Windows?  or OS2 w/ PM?
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Date: 23 Sep 90 06:59:16 GMT
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In article <57630@microsoft.UUCP> steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings) writes:
|Lotus, WordPerfect, and some others looked at the
|long run and said "Forget Windows.  OS/2 is going to blow it away." In the
|long run, this is still true.

But Steve, haven't you heard? MS and IBM are close to filing divorce.
IBM is going to get OS/2. In retaliation, MS has threatened to revoke
the planned crippling of Windows that would have been required to avoid
embarassing OS/2. Namely, Windows could get a high performance filesystem
and real multitasking. At that point, what would be the difference
between the two as far as the user is concerned?

|There never was a secret plan to trick Microsoft's rivals.  Microsoft has
|been developing for both platforms all along, and encouraging everyone else

Hm. Where's Word for OS/2? Where's Powerpoint for OS/2? Where's Project
for OS/2?



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