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From: arasmith@mathcs.emory.edu (David Arasmith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Drops OS/2
Message-ID: <6863@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 30 Jan 91 03:16:41 GMT
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Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
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In article <2785@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> rdominy@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Robert Dominy) writes:
>Might as well shut down this board...
>
>An article in the Wall Street Journal (1/28/91) announced that 
>Microsoft has officially dropped development of OS/2 in favor of
>windows. 
>
>Tough luck!
>
>-------------------------------
>Robert Dominy
>NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Can this really be true?

I'm not a Wall Street Journal guy.  What section, what page?
Can they be serious? (Microsoft, that is)

Have they conceded to the DOS users who don't know HOW to multitask
the UNIX users who can already do it and don't want to change, and the
mainframers who would like to keep their jobs?

What about the small companies who, courted by Microsoft to develop for
OS/2, are left holding (semi)dead products?  Will they be satisfied
by crippling their products for Windows?

Please take no offense at the above statements, they are not intended
to provoke.

Any comments?

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