> The original plan was to let Windows fade away after 2.x; there was an
> engineer at Microsoft that mostly improved Windows by himself enough to run > all of the Microsoft Office components at the same time (a difficult, if > not impossible feat under Windows 2.x of any flavor) and got an executive's > attention shortly after the OS/2 launch with his experimental Windows build > that it caused Microsoft to repivot around DOS and Windows again. The Microsoft Engineer in question was Steve Ballmer. There is an anekdote about this in the book "Unauthorized Windows 95" by Andrew Schulman.
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