Windows OS/2 and networking

Module 1 Section 8 8.1<Tab/>Windows, OS/2 and Networking - introduction Microsoft and IBM took on a joint development project to develop *<Tab/>OS/2: a new GUI operating system which would be owned by IBM However, Microsoft continued to develop Windows, a GUI interface to DOS. Most people predicted that OS/2 would be successful, but actually it was the release of Windows 3.0 at the start of the 1990s that …

…bitter) competition between companies, as well as unlikely alliances. Here are some possible explanations: *<Tab/>Moore's Law The rate of change in the computer industry alliances and rivalries start and finish in a very short time *<Tab/>Passionate about computers *<Tab/>Personalities: *<Tab/>Development costs All of this means that the industry is in a constant state of flux.