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Clash of the Titans
Source: Oracle Magazine Published: Apr 1991
In this 1991 article George Schussel accurately predicts the preeminence of Microsoft with its Windows operating system. The article forecasts the comparative influence of IBM and Microsoft on the computer business for the 90’s and selects Microsoft as the winner. Some comments from the article:
To describe Microsoft as a Titan in the same sentence as IBM may seem odd, since Microsoft has sales of $1 billion per year compared to IBM‘s $60 billion plus. However, in the PC world Microsoft’s influence is arguably greater than IBM‘s.
The poor market reception for the partners’ OS/2 Presentation Manager operating system has been eclipsed by Microsoft’s success with MS-Windows 3.0. MSWindows 3.0’s interface is virtually identical to Presentation Manager and should later pick up much of OS/2’s technical capabilities in multitasking and multimedia. Three million copies of MS-Windows 3.0 were sold in 1990 alone. OS/2 sales will not reach that level until 1993. (Note that IBM and Microsoft jointly own OS/2, while Microsoft singly owns MS-Windows 3.0.)
