IBM convinced companies like Lotus to develop for OS/2 first, which is why 1-2-3/G came out for OS/2 before a version was available for Windows. Excel just happened to be written for Windows.

Besides, while Team OS/2 members loved OS/2, IBM was never that happy about its market performance. Schindler said, “You have no idea how much of an embarrassment OS/2 was, inside IBM.

IBM’s OS/2 celebrates 25 year anniversary, still alive if you know where to look IBM’s ill-fated operating system OS/2 turns 25 this month, but it’s not as dead as you might think.

IBM may dispute the connection as part of some master plan to take back from Microsoft what Microsoft took from it in the 1990s (aka: avenging OS/2's death), but I'll bet you that somewhere on ...

IBM said in 2000 at the WarpTech conference that the end of life for OS/2 would be in 2006. OS/2 began its life as an advanced 16-bit operating system for 80286 PCs.

IBM assured customers Thursday that the company will continue to sell and support OS/2, clarifying an online notice that drew speculation that the vintage operating system was being phased out.

In the end, IBM's partner on OS/2, Microsoft, broke off its development arrangement and released Windows 3.0 in 1990. Most PC owners installed and used it thanks to its Mac-style graphical interface.

IBM stopped principal development of OS/2 with the release of Warp 4 in 1996, maintenance releases continued until 2001 but really it was a poorly made up extra from Zombie Dawn of the Dead at ...

IBM is measuring OS/2 for its coffin. The company reaffirmed its intent to soon end support for the storied operating system, releasing an official road map for the software’s demise.

IBM is encouraging OS/2 users to migrate to Linux. But users in the last bastion of OS/2 computing, branch banking, are locked into a Windows migration path being paved by ATM manufacturers.

IBM announced the early shipping dates at a breakfast for more than 1,000 of its dealers here at Comdex, the PC industry`s biggest trade show. Industry analysts, at an earlier seminar, estimated ...