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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly?

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Nov 13 3:59 PM EST

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To: BillHoo who wrote (45633)	5/30/2000 11:46:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) of 74651

Bill - re: who developed OS/2 for IBM and knew its weaknesses (or built them in) to help kill it? You have drifted into an area where I actually have direct experience, and your scenario does not hold water. In 1986 and 1987, I worked under contract to MSFT on OS/2 driver issues, mostly disk drivers. MSFT had NOTHING to do with the basic architecture of OS/2. The IBM design team was very arrogant, regarded the MSFT people as a bunch of hackers who might be able to do a few low level things with I/O and graphics but did not need to be included in any core design discussions. OS/2 was driven - and killed - by the typical IBM disease - don't let OS/2 threaten System38 (later AS400) business, develop the SAA architecture to sell more mainframe product even if it is incompatible with the volume space, hobble the disk performance so that the channel attached storage still looks good, etc. MSFT had no opportunity to influence anything but some base level driver design (along with the IHVs who were also in the process), and the development of "presentation manager".

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