Word: nt
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...features Microsoft has up till now reserved for the computer elite. According to a report by PC Week Online, Microsoft will develop one more version of Windows based on the original Windows 95 software, then it plans to make the leap to a version based on Windows NT, the faster, stabler operation system Microsoft created to allow businesses and power users to run mission-critical applications more efficiently and reliably...
...Thing. Two days after the trustbusting main event got going again in Washington, Danbury-based Bristol Technology Inc. opened its own suit against the Redmond giant, claiming that Gates & Co. put the Seattle screws to their software business by withholding vital information when Bristol licensed MS's Windows NT system. "Now it's official -- all of Microsoft's browsers are now under legal assault," says TIME technology correspondent Chris Taylor. "But NT, because it's the core of the soon-to-be-shipped Windows 2000, is really the one that has the most bearing on the PC world...
...that for relevance?) -- talk about pretty much the same thing: Microsoft's leveraging its platform dominance into software dominance. Bristol (which makes a product called Wind/U that is meant to bridge the code gulf between Windows and a competitor, Unix, and vice versa) says Microsoft withheld the NT code to keep Bristol -- and Unix programmers -- out of the software game now dominated by Windows-viable products. Microsoft, unsurprisingly, denies the claim. But after Gates pulled the rug out from under his own defense team Thursday in Washington with an apparently contradictory piece in Newsweek, don't expect to see Gates...
...earnings had climbed 75 percent over the same period last year. A recent estimate of Gates's personal fortune puts it at $73 billion. The incredible rise -- Microsoft earned $1.98 billion -- was attributed to strong personal computer sales that triggered equally swift sales of the operating systems Windows NT and Windows...
...this really new? Surveys in recent years have shown that corporate computer attacks are commonplace, and that the victims typically bury them rather than acknowledge security breaches. As much as anything else, the incident highlights the ongoing problems with Windows NT security, and the advantages of using more secure operating systems -- Linux, for one. One might be tempted to use Bill Gates's deposition rhetoric about Java against him: That the problem with the virus and Windows NT is evidence of sloppy programming on the part of Microsoft...