Module 1 Section 8 8.1<Tab/>Windows, OS/2 and Networking - introduction Microsoft and IBM took on a joint development project to develop *<Tab/>OS/2: a new GUI operating system which would be owned by IBM However, Microsoft continued to develop Windows, a GUI interface to DOS. Most people predicted that OS/2 would be successful, but actually it was the release of Windows 3.0 at the start of the 1990s that …showed first 75 words of 679 total…

…showed last 75 words of 679 total…bitter) competition between companies, as well as unlikely alliances. Here are some possible explanations: *<Tab/>Moore's Law The rate of change in the computer industry alliances and rivalries start and finish in a very short time *<Tab/>Passionate about computers *<Tab/>Personalities: *<Tab/>Development costs All of this means that the industry is in a constant state of flux.