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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
We didn't market OS/2 as a DesqView competitor. Your view of history regarding OS/2, NT, and other systems of the time are quite inaccurate.
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"A better DOS than DOS, a better Windows than Windows", and an SDK for line of business corporate apps.
No effort to market to end users.
That is exactly what DesqView (and TopDesk) among others, offered.
They may not have realized it but a system integration tool is what they were marketting. And I'm not making that up; that was the consensus post-mortem on OS/2 in the late 90's. And I heard that very phrase from our IBM rep when we bought our first-gen RS/6000s.
MS targetted the needs of end users and IBM targetted the desires of the glass house gang. Unfortunately for them, in the real world needs trump desires, even those of gatekeepers.
We're seeing a replay in trade publishing right now.