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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
Posted by: Gregory L. Marx (Friday 11 February 2005, 4:30 PM)
Well, I know OS/2 didn't get much publicity outside of the banking/business sector, but if they were selling *millions* of copies (as reported by PC Magazine) those copies had to have been used on the desktop for general purpose usage.
Further, the initial advertising campaign for Warp 3 (The Totally-Cool Way to get on the Internet) was extremely successful. Plus, don't forget that at the time Warp 3 came out OS/2 was the ONLY 32-bit operating system for general use. Windows 95 didn't come out until almost 2-years later.
All I know ultimately is that OS/2 was doing very well with Warp 3. It was only after MS pulled their dirty-tricks and IBM started to back away from supporting their product that things started to go downhill in a big way.
Prior to that, OS/2 was doing okay. And had IBM continued advertising like their Warp 3 ads its success would have most definitely continued.
What I find so ironic is that even today the WPS is very often still revered as a top-notch GUI and whenever a discussion takes place of Linux window-managers someone *always* seems to bring it up, lamenting the fact that todays GUIs still don't do things that OS/2 was doing 12-years ago ...
GLM
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Story: KDE getting ready to go native on Windows
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If you really want Posix for Windows.: http://www.... Jeff Lewis -
History repeating itself ...
To those advocat... Gregory L. Marx -
I look at it from the other point of vie... David Wright -
There are a few *HUGE* differences betwe... Richard June
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I can't argue with your 2nd and 3rd... Gregory L. Marx -
I don't remember OS/2 *EVER* d... Richard June
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Well, I know OS/2 didn't get m... Gregory L. Marx -
I definitely agree that the availability of c... Michiel Wittkampf
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When I was young, similar things happene... Chevalier Dr Dr Ruediger Marcus Flaig
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SFU -- Shut the F**K up? Cozminsky
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So I hope to be able to use http://www.reactos.com... Jamie Borg
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I thing that it's great for projects like REA... Anonymous
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The availability of cross platform applications ha... BD Phillips
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As a small office desktop user our 'training'... Anonymous
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Linux needs more, better drivers. Not Windows hel... michael howard
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Possible shortsighted comments by KDE developer?
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Our company is a Windows-only... Anonymous
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Isn't the point of the GPL to provide the freedom... Anonymous
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Having the only ports of great free software has n... Tobias Cohen
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