IBM assured customers Thursday that the company will continue to sell and support OS/2, clarifying an online notice that drew speculation that the vintage operating system was being phased out ...

IBM’s OS/2 celebrates 25 year anniversary, still alive if you know where to look IBM’s ill-fated operating system OS/2 turns 25 this month, but it’s not as dead as you might think.

A group of die-hard OS/2 users are petitioning IBM—again—to release the operating system’s source code as open-source. The question may not be whether IBM wants to do so… but if it can ...

IBM is measuring OS/2 for its coffin. The company reaffirmed its intent to soon end support for the storied operating system, releasing an official road map for the software’s demise. Armonk ...

No, IBM squandered it. Among its many failings with OS/2, IBM persuaded too few software companies to write OS/2 versions that took advantage of the operating system's advanced features.

IBM stopped principal development of OS/2 with the release of Warp 4 in 1996, maintenance releases continued until 2001 but really it was a poorly made up extra from Zombie Dawn of the Dead at ...

Hands up: who, like me, was a one-time IBM OS/2 user? What, you don’t know OS/2? It was IBM and (briefly) Microsoft’s 32-bit server and desktop operating system that was going to change the ...

It's been almost 15 years since Microsoft jilted IBM's OS/2 at the altar, kicking Big Blue while it was already down (financially), and exacerbating the old school company's global state of ...

25 years ago today, IBM and Microsoft announced OS/2, the PC operating system that was designed to replace DOS but failed to do so, thanks mostly to Microsoft's efforts to improve Windows.

International Business Machines Corp. announced on Tuesday the early shipment of OS/2, the operating system for the advanced models of its line of PS/2 personal computers introduced in April. The s… ...

IBM is encouraging OS/2 users to migrate to Linux. But users in the last bastion of OS/2 computing, branch banking, are locked into a Windows migration path being paved by ATM manufacturers.