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The Software That Failed To Compete With Windows

Posted by kdawson on from the rear-view-mirror-of-history dept.

harrymcc writes "When Microsoft shipped Windows 1.0 back in November 1985 — it turned 25 on Saturday — it wasn't clear that its much-delayed windowing add-on for DOS was going to succeed. After all, it was a late arrival to a market that was already teeming with ambitious competitors. A quarter-century later, it's worth remembering the early Windows rivals that didn't make it: Visi On, Top View, GEM, DESQview, and more."

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  1. X-Windows? by mozumder · · Score: 2, Funny

    Half the audience here is still running it.

    1. Re:X-Windows? by mozumder · · Score: 5, Funny

      This is slashdot.

      If slashdot users are using it, then it failed in the real world.

  2. Re:Hard to forget hell. by Tuan121 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your solid and detailed argument of "Neuromancer on C64 had better graphics than on Windows" is such a solid argument I'm just not sure where to start attacking it...

  3. Re:OS/2 by BrokenHalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    OS/2 rightfully isn't on that list...

    ...but then, of course, OS/2 was 1/2 of an operating system.

  4. Re:So ... by Teun · · Score: 3, Funny

    You deserve your three digit /. ID :)

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  5. Re:OS/2 by vux984 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I still use OS/2 whenever I need to format 2 floppy disks at once while compiling C-Kermit and browsing the web.

    That "need" come up often?

  6. Re:OS/2 by RobertM1968 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess you never know who you'll run into on the Internets

    LoL Alex, I run into you all the time online... :-)

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