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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."

2 of 347 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

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

    This is slashdot.

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