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Both Windows NT and Windows 95 were tagged as "OS/2 killer", and that slaughter-job couldn't have turned out better.

Of course it helps to be the original creator of the product that you set out to kill... (In this sense, the iPad could deservedly be called the "Mac killer".)

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OS/2 was killed by IBM's refusal to market it, the requirement for developers to jump through painful hoops just to get permission to be considered for developer status, and their total disdain for those developers who did manage to get product out.

Of course it's always easier to kill off something that has its own built-in self-destructive weaknesses.

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