I cannot call those backstabbing. They are more of the results of market competi...

beagle3 · on Jan 22, 2021

It’s not happening anymore, partly because of reputation and partly because they’re no longer the 800lbs gorilla they once were - but the “Microsoft kiss of death” was a thing - cooperating with Microsoft often resulted in great damage to the other company.

SGI; Nokia; Sando; Spry; there were many others through the years.

pjmlp · on Jan 22, 2021

Nokia have themselves to blame, with the internal teams competition and the board promising an hefty bonus to Elop if he managed to do what he did, selling the mobile business unit.

Similar examples can be given for other IT giants.

29athrowaway · on Jan 22, 2021

This wasn't team 1 vs team 2.

It was one team splitting half-way and taking everything from the other.

kyberias · on Jan 22, 2021

Explain how it was like that in the case of NT.

IBM went their own way with OS/2 and Microsoft hired Dave Cutler from Digital to develop NT over several years. Windows NT is not OS/2. It never was.

29athrowaway · on Jan 23, 2021

That is a mischaracterization of what happened.

Microsoft unilaterally changed the OS/2 3.0 API to the match the Windows API, IBM did not approve of that, and then the project split, with the Microsoft version of OS/2 3.0 becoming Windows NT.