Word: borland
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...developers whom IBM is counting on to write programs that run in conjunction with the Microsoft product. Suddenly, they have to worry about whether the programs they are working on will be declared illegal. "For years Microsoft has been telling us Windows was safe," says - Philippe Kahn, president of Borland International, which has already spent nearly $1 million developing an information-retrieval program based on Windows. "It's like waking up and finding out that your partner might have AIDS...
Publishers have adopted a variety of novel techniques to help stem the flood of telephone traffic. Borland International runs a forum on the CompuServe network where customers' questions are answered by either the company's technicians or other CompuServe subscribers. Lotus and Microsoft fill their disks with elaborate help messages that can be called up to the screen the moment a problem arises. Software Publishing, creator of the easy- to-use PFS filing and word-processing programs, refers callers back to their dealers...
...exercise that generally is more trouble than it is worth. The key to these handy new programs is that they can be called up, used and put aside in a flash without disrupting the main task being done with the computer. The most popular packages in this group include Borland Software's SideKick ($50), Software Arts' Spotlight ($140), Bellsoft's PopUps ($40 to $80 each) and PolyTron's Poly-Windows...
When Naturalist-Author Hal Borland died in 1978, he left a shelf of more than 30 books, as well as thousands of "outdoor editorials" written over a period of 36 years for the Sunday New York Times. He also left the text of a volume intended as a celebration of America's trees. A Countryman's Woods (Knopf; 184 pages; $25) was completed by Borland's friend and sometime collaborator Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine, who also took the handsome color photographs that illustrate it. Borland's relaxed, graceful prose mixes botanical information (the intricate...
...simple war," says Scruggs wearily. "Then we could put up a heroic statue of a couple of Marines and leave it at that." (Indeed, next year, to satisfy the critics, a flag and statue of three Viet Nam foot soldiers will be implanted nearby.) Virginia Veteran Jim Borland saw the memorial on Veterans Day and found it "full of ambivalence," like the country's attitude toward...