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From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
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: 21 Sep 90 19:50:14 GMT
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In article <1990Sep19.171840.9384@portia.Stanford.EDU> aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace) writes:
>Right now, though, MS basically got rivals Lotus and Wordperfect to devote 
>resources to OS/2, then came out with Windows 3 and left them holding the 
>(empty) bag with no Windows 3 products...

This isn't true.  For seven years, a group of people at Microsoft have been
pushing Windows.  More recently, another group of people at Microsoft
started pushing OS/2.  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.

Although people convulsed with laughter whenever they saw Windows 1.X and
2.X, version 3.0 is good enough it has caught on.  But this caught Lotus
and WordPerfect by surprise; they never thought Windows would amount to
anything.  For now, at least, Windows is selling very well, so they are
scrambling to get products ready.

There never was a secret plan to trick Microsoft's rivals.  Microsoft has
been developing for both platforms all along, and encouraging everyone else
to do the same -- but for six years, everyone considered Windows to be a
joke.
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Steve "I don't speak for Microsoft" Hastings    ===^=== :::::
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