How IBM became the poster child of operating system failure during the ’90s

In the early 1990s, we had no idea where the computer industry was going, what the next generation would look like, or even what the driving factor would be. All the developers back then knew is that the operating systems available in server rooms or on desktop computers simply weren't good enough, and that the next generation needed to be better-a lot better. This was easier said than done, but this problem for some reason seemed to rack the brains of one company more than any other: IBM. Throughout the decade, the company was associated with more overwrought thinking about operating systems than any other, with little to show for it in the end. The problem? It might have gotten caught up in kernel madness. Today's Tedium explains IBM's odd operating system fixation, and the belly flops it created. I personally really loved using OS/2 over the past ten years or so. There's something quite elegant and appealing about the operating system, and I consider it the best way to run Windows 3.x software there is - it's entirely built-in. The world would've been a very different place had IBM managed to take the operating system crown for the PC industry - or the Mac, for that matter, through Talingent.