Comment by sedatk
4 days ago
I agree. That was the only unfair assessment in the article, IMHO. Windows 2 was based on the Presentation Manager standard which was developed by IBM and Microsoft, and also used with OS/2, and more importantly, CDE + Motif. That's why many Unix desktops used to look like 3D Microsoft Windows desktops back then. Because they all were based on the same GUI standard.
You're talking about Windows 3. Windows 2 predates Presentation Manager.
It doesn't seem to be the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation_Manager#History
Maybe they were developed together but Windows 2.0 released earlier was my point, so saying that Windows 2 was based on PM didn't feel right.