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...founded Silicon Graphics, a computer firm known for its workstations, sent Andreessen an E-mail message in early 1994 suggesting that they talk. Using Clark's capital, they founded Netscape, with the idea of becoming a kind of Microsoft of the Internet. Their breakthrough product has been the Internet browser called Navigator...
Microsoft will make its Microsoft Network, until now open only to subscribers, available to anyone over the Internet. "This is a great move for Microsoft," says TIME's Joshua Quittner. "By far the most popular browser is Netscape; what Microsoft wants is for people to use its competing Explorer browser. Not very many people are on the Microsoft Network right now, and they want as many people as possible to see and use their products. What Microsoft hopes will happen is that people will go to their site and see all the cool things that you can do with their...
...civil subpoenas to Microsoft competitors, including Compuserve, Netscape and Netcom, to investigate whether the software giant intentionally set up bugs in its new Windows 95 operating system to disable rival internet access programs. Since the August release of Windows 95, numerous companies have complained that Microsoft's accompanying browser, called "Plus!", conflicts and in some cases disables competing browsers when users access the internet through Windows. Don't blame us, Microsoft retorts: their software glitches are the true culprits. The company points out it even has helped its rivals to fix any problems seemingly caused by its software...
...recent Microsoft Word "virus" exploited this feature. Someone wrote a destructive program using the Microsoft Word macro language which simply looked like a harmless Microsoft Word data file. If you selected the file from your Web browser, Microsoft Word would load the file and run the program, making your life miserable for the next few days...
...invent such a technology? One glance at what you can do with Java, and most people are immediately convinced that it's a good thing. And it is. Java allows you to extend the capability of your Web browser, enabling you to incorporate useful real-time applications into your browser or play nifty animations and sounds...