Posted 10/13/2009 at 01:49:50am

This marketing tactic failed in the 1980s, what makes them think it will work now?  Does anyone remember the Novell keyboard that booted to a floppy?  I guess it is true, failure to study history dooms us to repeat history.

Cloud computing ia a rename of the failed server thin client of the 1980s, don't be fooled or stupid.  This will cost those using it dearly in the long run.

Posted 07/21/2009 at 02:19:28am

There are a few minor omissions in the article.  PC-DOS 4 was written, under license, by IBM.  It was the ONLY version of DOS that IBM wrote.  It was not the commercial success IBM had hoped due to pricing.Next, Internet Explorer was released several months after Windows 95, both of which are outside of the time frame discussed.  At the time Internet Explorer was released, it was only as a component of Microsoft Plus for Windows95. Internet Explorer did not become popular until it was made a free download in late 1996. Internet Explorer was not intergraded into the operating system until version 3.0, about the same time as Windows98 hit the market.

To address OS2 and WindowsNT question posed above, both are outside of the time frame being discussed and are irrelevant to this article.  However I do find it interesting that the original kernel for OS2 was written by Microsoft for IBM under a mutual marketing agreement.  An agreement IBM terminated.  Originally both WindowsNT and OS2 shared many features and were actually compatible with each others API.