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I guess you can also draw similarities to the MS/IBM joint venture that was OS/2, but that actually released products - even if MS dumped it for NT.

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Oh, OS/2 Warp was fine. I even had it as my default OS for a while back then.

Team OS/2 Baby! I still wish I had the salmon polo from the Warp comdex push.

MS/IBM joint venture failed through Windows 3.0, which in turn apparently was kickstarted by one person in the company.

Yes, if I am not mistaken, this is one of the books that tells which person was it.

"Undocumented Windows: A Programmers Guide to Reserved Microsoft Windows Api Functions (The Andrew Schulman Programming Series/Book and Disk"

https://www.amazon.com/-/de/dp/0201608340

Pity as SOM was much better alternative than COM, and OS/2 in general.

However that wasn't the only issue that nailed OS/2's destiny, higher hardware resources and lack of proper management direction from IBM side also played a big role.

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