Editing Workplace OS (section)

===Discontinuation===
The Workplace OS project was finally canceled in March 1996<ref name="Experience with the Development"/> due to myriad factors: inadequate performance; low acceptance of the [[PowerPC Reference Platform]]; poor quality of the [[PowerPC 600#PowerPC 620|PowerPC 620]] launch; extensive cost overruns; lack of AIX, Windows, or OS/400 personalities; and the overall low customer demand. The only mainstream desktop operating system running on PowerPC was Windows NT, which also lacked supply and demand. Industry analysts said that "the industry may have passed by the PowerPC".<ref name="too little, too late"/> In 1996, IBM also closed the Power Personal Division responsible for personal PowerPC systems.<ref name="WorkplaceMicrokernelandOS"/> IBM stopped developing new operating systems, and instead committed heavily to [[Linux]], [[Java (programming language)|Java]], and some [[Windows]]. In 2012, IBM described Linux as the "universal platform".<ref name="Look at Linux">{{cite web | title=Look at Linux, the operating system and universal platform | first=M. Tim | last=Jones | date=March 13, 2012 | publisher=[[IBM]] | url=https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linuxuniversal/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414054159/https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-linuxuniversal/index.html | archive-date=April 14, 2012 | access-date=March 16, 2019}}</ref>