"Exploring Microsoft's Unreleased OS/2 2.0: A Road Not Taken"
An unreleased preview of Microsoft's OS/2 2.0, developed during the company's partnership with IBM, has been unearthed and made available on the Internet Archive. This build, dating back to July 1990, showcases Microsoft's work on OS/2 before the company shifted its focus to Windows. The preview, which differs significantly from the version eventually released by IBM, offers a glimpse into a pivotal moment in PC history. This discovery follows the recent unearthing of an early build of 86-DOS, shedding light on the often-contentious partnership between IBM and Microsoft. Ultimately, the development of OS/2 3.0 by Microsoft evolved into Windows NT, which later merged with consumer versions of Windows, while a modernized branch of OS/2 called ArcaOS continues to run on modern hardware.
