30 Jan 2007
BeOS: the Mac OS X might-have-been

Who remembers BeOS? Well, I do, for one. An interesting system - certainly technically superior to the Windoze of it's day (95 and 98), but marketed by morons. More proof that mere technical superiority is not enough. Money, panache and marketing mojo are also required if a product is going to fly.

As World+Dog gets its head around Windows Vista, let's look back at an operating system that might have been a contender, very nearly becoming Apple's next-generation OS and, but for Linux, almost certainly the key alternative to Windows in the x86 world. Ladies and gentlemen, who remembers the Be OS?

(link) [The Register]

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