data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft can sell almost anything these days; even the relatively unpopular Xbox Series consoles have sold tens of millions of units. The company is a household name, and whether you like it or not, you’ve probably given Microsoft money at some point or another. That wasn’t always the case, though. Back in the mid-1980s, it wasn’t even clear that Windows was going to hang around that much longer, as Microsoft was working with data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/ibm”>IBM on an alternative to both Windows and the DOS on which it relied: OS/2….
