I had some contact with IBMers in Boca Raton, FL who were the OS/2 developers. Some success by the later versions of Windows made Microsoft abandon the IBM connection.
Alex
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
-- Isaac Asimov