Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jun 2004 06:22 UTC
PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, [ex-]users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some. Depending on how you count, it was early 1994 when the first BeOS version left the Be, Inc. offices and headed toward Be's "partners" and "developers". It was 1994 when the word started to spread around among geeks about this "new and exciting" OS and soon, external devs got access to it.
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It's really sad to see the logo "Microsoft Certified Gold Partner" on Beatware's website and no mention to BeOS: IIRC, Beatware was just going to release AppSketcher (a visual IDE for BeOS development) when they announced abandoning BeOS after the "focus-shift" towards BeIA.
ePicture and Mail-It were really pro-level applications, even if not so really responsive (Beatware developed FreeStyle, its own extension to the Interface Kit for supporting themes and a mature table widget, among others).
IIRC, however, the people of yellowTAB weren't developers but only the publishers of BeOS-Magazine, an amatuer magazine badly printed and much inferior compared to the one designed by BeNews stuff.