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From: David_Wright@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS Wars
Message-ID: <9105231120.AA92724@f170.n771.z3.fidonet.org>
Date: 17 May 91 15:21:29 GMT
Reply-To: David_Wright@p4.f905.n153.z1.fidonet.org (David Wright)
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  OS Wars.  That's the title of an article by Jim Boyce (author of 
Maximizing Windows so he's naturally unbiased), in the May 1991 issue of 
Cadence magazine.  The opening paragraph reads:

  The headline in the Wall Street Journal said it all: "Microsoft 
Corporation to Scrap OS/2."  According to the January 28 report, Microsoft, 
the world's largest supplier of PC software, would be dropping development 
of OS/2 and concentrating its efforts on Microsoft Windows.  Forget that 
Microsoft would cautiosly deny the next day that they were scrapping OS/2 
altogether.  Wars and rumors of wars, signs and portents___OS/2 is dead; 
long live MS Windows.

He goes on to regurgitate all the rumors of Win32 as God's gospel, then;

  OS/2 Version 2.0 is being developed soley by IBM, which has never 
demonstrated much success in the PC software arena.  Many analysts and 
industry-watchers are predicting that even if IBM delivers OS/2 2.0 as 
promised, it will be no more successful than previous versions...

  But Microsoft has other plans for OS/2, which it intends to implement in 
Version 3.0, due out in the second half of 1992...

  Microsoft's statement urging developers to concentrate on Windows instead 
of OS/2 may be a large nail in OS/2's coffin...

  Autodesk is not immune to Microsoft's shift in priorities from OS/2 to 
Windows.  It is currently holding development of the OS/2 version of AutoCAD 
Release 11 until IBM delivers a 386-specific version of OS/2 2.0...

  Users are going to have as difficult a time as developers in reading 
Microsoft's intentions and gauging it's direction.  But if the last few 
months are any indication, Windows has come in with a bang, and OS/2 appears 
to be going out with a whimper.

Like PC Rag, these guys can't wait to bury it.  Does anyone else get the 
feeling that magazine editors are trying to kill OS/2 just to prove 
something to IBM?  Have these guys got a chip on their shoulders or what?

Can you say "self-fulfilling prophesy"?

                Dave


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