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In 1987, Microsoft's OS/2 promised to revolutionize personal computing with true preemptive multitasking, dynamic linking, and hardware-agnostic APIs. This deep dive explores its innovative architecture—from protected-mode memory management to thread-based concurrency—that laid groundwork for modern OS design. Though history took a different path, OS/2's concepts foreshadowed today's computing paradigms.

A deep dive into Microsoft's elusive LAN Manager 2.0 release reveals a 90-day password expiration trap that bricked installations, complex versioning mysteries, and OEM conflicts that shaped early enterprise networking. Forensic analysis of rediscovered 1990 builds exposes how Microsoft's networking ambitions nearly backfired spectacularly.