IBM has said that they will no longer sell OS/2 or OS/2-related products effective December 23, 2005. Standard support (e.g., outside of a service contract) ends on December 31, 2006.

OS/2 Warp was IBM’s rival to Windows and it was popular enough to achieve a cult following. Even when I wrote its obituary, there were enough angry users to claim that it would continue.

This is not a joke. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_frown.gifI'm looking for pricing for the Warp 4 upgrade that ...

On the next screen, you select the type of OS (Linux, OS/2, and so on), as well as the specific version (Red Hat Linux, OS/2 Warp 4, and so on) you want to install.

IBMs release of OS/2 2.0 was advertised as “a better DOS than DOS and a better Windows than Windows.” In the subsequent battle between Windows and OS/2 for the hearts and minds of users ...

Also still kicking is OS/2, IBM’s last stab at a competing operating system to Windows, which the company abandoned in 1996 after its fourth and final major release, known as OS/2 Warp.

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's OS/2 Warp will survive through a new focus on network computing, said executives in charge of the operating system. The strategy, which was devised by chief executive Lou Gerstner, includes ...

OS/2 has OpenOffice and Firefox, developers’ conferences and commercial products. It has a time-honed solidity second to none, and no malware profile whatsoever.

What this gets you is an evolution of OS/2 Warp 4.52 that updates the operating system for modern day hardware, although [Michael]’s experiences with using USB and installing WordPerfect 5.2 end ...