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From: cfreas@libserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Is OS/2 dead?
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.222123.25015@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 91 22:21:23 GMT
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In article <1991Feb2.203624.25097@unixg.ubc.ca> ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) writes:
>In article <1991Feb2.155742.3843@sbcs.sunysb.edu> cfreas@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas) writes:
>
>>The only reason I can think of for MS taking this sidestep through
>>Win32 land is to make money in the interim between OS/2 2.0 and OS/2 3.0
>>for themselves with no IBM product to take any chunk of it. 
> 
>That pretty much matches my conclusions about what is going on here. 
>I think the MS point of view, however, is that the customers have spoken,
>and they've refused to by into OS/2 unless they get there via a series of 
>steps that leave them with the impression they are just upgrading from
>DOS. There is some (small) amount of truth to this view. 

Exactly.  Many of my non-technical friends rely on the press for their
final information.  The press decided long ago to run OS/2 in the dirt.
Now they're drooling over Win32 (an OS/2 2.0 clone), so my friends are
drooling.  The media runs the industry.  Microsoft just knows better how
to handle the media, and make flashy products (sometimes without substance:
Win3).  I wonder if DOS and the PC would have made it if the media was as
powerful as it is now in the micro industry.  Seems to me that the same
arguments were used then, but you had mostly technical people who could
see through them.
-- 
Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / cfreas@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu