User:Smuckola/OS/2


 * OS/2 2.0 LA is "Limited Availability", not sold at retail and was only supplied to beta testers and special customers. OS/2 2.0 LA was shipped in November 1991. Steve Ballmer had publicly announced that he would eat a floppy disk if IBM managed to release OS/2 2.0 by the end of 1991.
 * By October 1991, industry analysts reportedly thought that IBM's enterprise market was interpreting IBM's messaging about Taligent as saying that OS/2 has no future.
 * OS/2 Warp Server beta has great reception, lists many big OS/2 customers.
 * By early 1993, customers were confused by the potential relationship between the current OS/2 and the future Taligent and Workplace OS. IBM and Taligent Inc. reiterated that Taligent is not the successor of and replacement for OS/2, but a proving ground for its future technologies—while also being a forward migration target. A beta of Workplace OS was then promised by mid-1993, with final release in late 1993.
 * IBM withdrew CommonPoint for OS/2 from the market on August 3, 1999