Microsoft: Repeating IBMs OS/2 Mistakes With Windows, Android

[anuseems]

Dual boot smart phones sound a lot like failed OS/2-Windows dual boot PCs.

From The VAR Guy:

t sounds like Microsoft is working on a dual-boot smartphone strategy that would cover both Google Android and Windows Phone. Um... this strategy sounds a bit like the 1990s, when IBM launched a dual-boot initiative involving OS/2 and Windows. Anybody else remember how that story turned out?

Microsoft's alleged thinking goes something like this: Partners and customers will have the opportunity to have their Windows Phone with a healthy side of Android to go along with it, suspects Michael Cusanelli -- a peer here at The VAR Guy. In theory, that could make Microsoft's smart phone strategy more attractive in a world where Apple iOS and Android dominate, and Windows is an also-ran laggard (at least in terms of market share).

http://thevarguy.com/mobile-device-management-software-solutions/030414/microsoft-repeating-ibms-os2-mistakes-windows-android

Edited March 5, 2014 by anuseems

[smallhagrid]

Whoever wrote that article never actually used OS/2 Warp in it's final, fixed version.

It is really the OS that m$ stole a good portion of to make all it's future windows versions after it.

(Previously it had been a collaboration between m$ & IBM...)

It was a very solid & reliable OS - but mostly unknown as was the internet back then.

Also unknown to most folks there were 2 versions of OS/2 Warp - called red spine & blue spine because of how their boxes looked - and the red one wasn't nearly as good as the blue, which of course cost more.

I think if it had come out a couple of years later it would still be in use with devoted users much like XP is, right now.

It was truly very much like XP in many ways.

Edited March 8, 2014 by smallhagrid