I thought the GUI for OS/2 (version 2 and later) was just fine. I had version 1.1 too but it barely ran on the system I had at the time. It's GUI was not anything to write home about.
The "Desktop" was also far more practical that what MS has given us through the years.
>No way to know where we'd be.
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>But, I'm glad we're not. The GUI on OS/2 was awful.
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>>Microsoft's actions cost the rest of us!!!!
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>>The article states "...The settlement resolves those antitrust claims, as well as others related to IBM's OS/2 operating system and SmartSuite desktop application suite....".
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>>OS/2 was a great operating system - a real operating system - that essentially showed Microsoft how proper operating systems should be written.
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>>I wonder where we would be today if Microsoft had embraced its co-creation rather than stamping it out?????
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