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IBM & Apple; back to the future. (Apple to design proprietary software for proprietary IBM hardware)
June 28, 1991... Last January, Microsoft saw the writing on the wall and dumped OS/2 and Presentation Manager as part of its high-end strategy. Microsoft saw Windows expanding from its mid-range slot into a high-end product that would take the place of OS/2, while DOS remained the recommended solution for...

The Bill Gates memo. (memo from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates) (transcript)
June 28, 1991... The Bill Gates 'memo' first surfaced as a lead article by Lee Gomes in the San Jose Mercury News ('Microsoft's Gates Eyes Challenges,' Tuesday June 18, 1991. After the story ran, the complete memo was faxed to anyone requesting it by Microsoft's public relations firm, Waggener Edstrom. (All...

Short quiz. (humor) (Windows Watch)
June 28, 1991... What's Blue and Pink, and turns What's Blue and Pink, and turns Microsoft apple green? (Do we really have to tell you the answer to this one?)

Big Blue's deals. (IBM licenses and buys technology) (Windows Watch)
June 28, 1991... Big Blue has been licensing and/or buying technology right and left--from Apple, Borland, Go, Lotus, Metaphor, Next, and Novell. How much of it they'll actually use, and how they plan to use it, is an interesting question. In June, IBM completed a licensing deal for ObjectVision, the new...

Getting bigger. (OS/2 2.0 beta copy occupies up to 20 Mbytes of hard disk space) (Windows Watch)
June 28, 1991... The current OS/2 2.0 beta takes up 18-20 Mbytes of hard disk space and requires 18 disks to load. This sounds more like a server than a desktop operating system. Most users we talk to have 40 Mbyte hard disks and would have trouble finding 5 Mbyte free after downloading Windows and a few...