That is interesting. Although I only ever used the MS version on 286. This was the very first version of OS/2, the "text mode only" version mentioned in the article, when Presentation Manager (the windowing GUI) was a separate program.
At the time, I worked on an office suite called Enable, which featured strong spreadsheet, word processing, and dbase-like database applications. Windows existed, but wasn't successful yet, and for some time we were explicitly testing for compatibility with OS/2.
Later on, at the time OS/2 2 and Warp came out, I was working at IBM. The frustration there, among the people who cared at all, was palpable. They really believed they had a superior product, and largely blamed IBM management and marketing organizations for its failure.
At the time, I worked on an office suite called Enable, which featured strong spreadsheet, word processing, and dbase-like database applications. Windows existed, but wasn't successful yet, and for some time we were explicitly testing for compatibility with OS/2.
Later on, at the time OS/2 2 and Warp came out, I was working at IBM. The frustration there, among the people who cared at all, was palpable. They really believed they had a superior product, and largely blamed IBM management and marketing organizations for its failure.