Editing Workplace OS (section)

====Roadmap====
On November 22, 1995, IBM's developer newsletter said, "Another focus of the 1996 product strategy will be the IBM Microkernel and microkernel-based versions of OS/2 Warp. Nearly 20 corporations, universities, and research institutes worldwide have licensed the microkernel, laying the foundation for a completely open microkernel standard." IBM planned a second feature-parity release for [[x86]] and [[PowerPC]] in 1996,<ref name="DSN Issue 18"/> and version 2.0 of the microkernel was "distributed to microkernel adopters" early that year.<ref name="WorkplaceMicrokernelandOS"/>{{rp|19}} This version was described as final, with support for x86 and ARM processors.<ref name="WorkplaceMicrokernelandOS"/>{{rp|22}} IBM reportedly tested OS/2 on the never-released x86-compatible [[PowerPC 600#PowerPC 615|PowerPC 615]].<ref name="Microsoft killed">{{cite web | title=Microsoft killed the PowerPC 615 | publisher=The Register | date=October 1, 1998 | author=Staff | url=https://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/10/01/microsoft_killed_the_powerpc/ | access-date=February 8, 2019}}</ref>

At this point, the several-year future roadmap of Workplace OS included IBM Microkernel 2.0 and was intended to subsume the fully converged future of the OS/2 platform starting after the future release of OS/2 version 4, including ports to [[Pentium (original)|Pentium]], [[Pentium Pro]], [[MIPS architecture|MIPS]], ARM, and [[DEC Alpha|Alpha]] CPUs.<ref name="WorkplaceMicrokernelandOS"/>