OS/2 gradually faded from use, making occasional public appearances on Automatic Teller Machines' boot screens to remind the wider public of its existence.
By the time Big Blue brought it to market, though, Microsoft's dominance had been entrenched. IBM kept OS/2 alive, and its fourth release was widely regarded as superior to Windows 95 and Windows NT. The OS was compatible with some Windows drivers, but Windows 3.x did so well that the IBM/Microsoft partnership dissolved in unhappy circumstances in 1992. The free open source web browser Otter – which uses the Chromium browser engine at the heart of Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge – is being ported to OS/2.įor the uninitiated, OS/2 was an operating system that was created by IBM and Microsoft in the mid to late 1980s.
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