Remember how Windows 3.0 changed the rules for MS-DOS applications, and EVERYBODY scrambled to "get on board" ?
Er... no actually. Most commentards and programmers at the time referred to Windows 3.0 as a nine day wonder. The world of business computing was always going to be DOS. In referring to the time BillG recalled that even though MS were giving away the SDK for free (IBM were charging ~$US1,000 for the OS/2 SDK), there was a dearth of programmers interested in writing software for Windows. So he put together a team to write what was to become MS Office and as BillG put it: "They had no choice".
Biting the hand that feeds IT
