Motorola Inc’s desire to get Windows NT on the PowerPC is explained by its conclusion that NT will dominate the market by 1996 or 1997, dwarfing all other comers including the dwindling MS-DOS and Windows by grabbing a 40% market share of the total 50m operating systems sold in 1997. It sees Apple Computer Inc at number two with 20%, Unix fairly negligible, OS/2 still worse and the object-oriented crowd starting to take off and selling around 5m units. There are reports that IBM Corp’s Advanced Workstation and Systems Division will get first crack at bringing NT-on-PowerPC machines to market.
