On: Gordon Letwin OS/2 Usenet post (1995)

[irusensei]

I think people blaming OS/2's failure surely on Microsoft are missing the point that IBM grossly mismanaged the project.

[martiniturbide → irusensei]

I think it is both. IBM may missed the point in a big way. They were an slow corporation to market an OS home product. The PC became a home product and IBM was not ready to be on that kind of circus.

But don't underestimate Microsoft. They went very hard to market Windows as home product and also as a server in corporations. But they also did some shady stuff. Read: https://www.quora.com/Why-did-IBMs-OS-2-project-lose-to-Micr...

And later with open source: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

That's why young people today, don't understand older guys from the 90's that hate Microsoft. Microsoft was really evil that decade.

[CRConrad → martiniturbide]

"That decade"? Can't say I've seen any actual signs of change in that.