> Such a great achievement, and so ahead of its time. Did this trend

> discontinue simply because M$ wanted to dominate the OS world and

> hence not want their softwares to run on non-Windows machines?

More because M$ dominated the OS world, and cross-platform

development is difficult. If you want to go back to the early '80s,

Lotus supplanted VisiCorp in the spreadsheet market because VisiCalc

only ran on the Apple II, while 1-2-3 ran on DOS.

Of course, as Microsoft acquired various software companies (like our

friends at Fox Software), they had a vested interest in making sure

their products only ran on Microsoft OSs.

-Jerry

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