In Forum: *nix, and Other Operating Systems
By User: vkarthik16
Remember OS/2? Promoted as the successor to DOS in the late 1980's and early 1990's, the product wound up losing out to Windows and then slowly fading away.
With Windows 95's success, IBM knew they had lost the battle for the consumer desktop. The company laid off 95% of the OS/2 project team and announced that Warp 4 would be the final major release. Yet IBM didn't stop selling and supporting OS/2 until a decade later, in 2006.
So what does the future hold?
By User: vkarthik16
Remember OS/2? Promoted as the successor to DOS in the late 1980's and early 1990's, the product wound up losing out to Windows and then slowly fading away.
With Windows 95's success, IBM knew they had lost the battle for the consumer desktop. The company laid off 95% of the OS/2 project team and announced that Warp 4 would be the final major release. Yet IBM didn't stop selling and supporting OS/2 until a decade later, in 2006.
So what does the future hold?