Then Windows 95 came out, and OS/2 couldn't run all of the apps for it anymore. It no longer had it's edge and it basically died.
While that undoubtedly was a factor, OS/2 would have died anyway. IBM was never fully behind it, and by 1996 was tired of it already. Plus, IBM couldn't market ice water in a desert. They are totally inept when it comes to consumer-level marketing, with a single exception. The original IBM PC ads, with the Charlie Chaplin character. Those ads were brilliant, and helped to sell *loads* of IBM PCs!
I used to run OS/2 back in the day. It got me through the Windows 3.1 era. When Windows 95 came out (and NT4 a year later), it was obvious to anyone with eyes that OS/2 was finished.
Dan
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