OS/2, every mention
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The Steve Ballmer Interview · Acquired
- ▶ 21:36 Ben Gilbert And maybe walk us through a little bit the OS two windows world.
- ▶ 23:35 David Rosenthal For listeners, everything we're talking about is OS two.
- ▶ 23:38 David Rosenthal OS two.
- ▶ 23:40 Steve Ballmer OS two, and there was OS two extended edition or something, which it had their edition.
- ▶ 24:06 Ben Gilbert let's do OS two together.
- ▶ 24:44 Steve Ballmer We're trying to keep with OS two.
- ▶ 24:53 Steve Ballmer And so Bill's pushing windows hard, but we still suspected OS two could be the winner because it came from IBM, but we couldn't just like stop for three or four years.
- ▶ 25:10 Steve Ballmer So, we kept going with Windows, we kept going with OS two, and then May, 1990, they come along and shoot us.
- ▶ 26:04 Steve Ballmer What's always too good for?
- ▶ 29:16 Ben Gilbert Walking away from the OST collaboration?
- ▶ 29:21 David Rosenthal Basically they kicked you out, kicked Microsoft out, said we're, we're taking OS two in-house.
- ▶ 55:53 Steve Ballmer IBM's still selling OS two.