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To: Kayaker who wrote (127485)	5/20/1999 11:36:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 176387

I hear the reason for the rewrite (80% new) was partially to eliminate the royalty checks it pays to IBM (IBM:NYSE) for cowriting the kernel. Pure BS. IBM had nothing to do with the Windows or DOS kernel, the kernel they co-wrote was OS/2. Even MSFT did not think that far ahead - Windows was supposed to be a transition product to OS/2. But when sales started to take off, MSFT shifted gears. This was in the OS/2 version 3.2 timeframe. MSFT refused to give IBM rights to any of the Windows code which was the main reason for the breakup of the partnership between the two companies. I guess history is not a requirement for the MCSE certification.