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>Though to contradict your statement of IBM's ineptness, OS/2 seemed to be the best most stable OS at the time. MS managed to win out through marketing and a better business strategy. Are there any details on how they managed to outmuscle IBM in getting computer vendors to preinstall Windows on new systems?

Hi Evan,

I suppose that it *is* a business strategy to consistently replace a critical component of Win in order to make OS2 malfunction. But I would call it as bad as IBM making OS2 dependent on outside code in the first place.

I agree that OS2 was an elegant and stable OS and it would be interesting to see where things would now stand if there had been some way for IBM to continue its development for widespread (read: WIN alternative) use.

Cheers,

Jim N