From: Adam Taylor
To: billp; bradsi; jonro
Subject: RE: URGENT: WSJ - Ferengi article
Date: Thursday, November 11, 1993 11:57 AM
Here's the pitch we used yesterday with the press. This seemed to work well.
thx.
- OS/2 IS CLEARLY ON A WINDOWS CLONING STRATEGY. Evidence is the
decision to call this product "OS/2 for Windows". But when you're in the
cloning business, you're constantly playing catchup. OS/2 has always
been behind. IBM needs 18 months to get partial support for Windows 3.1,
but they still don't have support for VxDs or Windows device drivers.
Cloning huge support implications. Who will customers call when they
have a problem?
- NOW, IBM IS BEHIND ALL OVER AGAIN. OS/2 2.1 doesn't support WFW 3.11
and MS-DOS 6.2. They don't support the speed enhancements from WFW's
32-bit file access and network components. They don't work with
DoubleSpace, or even PC-DOS 6.1 disk compression. WFW 3.11 will ship
over 6 million PCs in the next 12 months, or over 30% of the Windows
total runrate. MS-DOS 6 has already shipped over 15 million units to
date. OS/2 doesn't support al these PC's, which includes all the Dells
and all the Gateways.
- IBM'S TECHNOLOGY THREADMILL GETS WORSE. In the future, OS/2 won't
support emerging technologies such as OLE2, Win32 and PnP. This means
they won't run all the new features of the latest Windows applications,
like Office 4.0, or the new generation of hardware what supports Plug
and Play.
- CUSTOMERS HAVE CLEARLY DECIDED. Customers want to run Windows
applications FAST. They want support for new applications and hardware
standards. Windows ships over 1.5 million units every month and accounts
for 99% of the market. Customers want Windows, even IBM has figured that
out with their new product "OS/2 for Windows".
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http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/4000/PX04115_T.pdf
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court documents in the case of Comes v Microsoft.
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