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Never happy to be upstaged, especially by Sun and Oracle, Microsoft and Intel called a pre-emptive press conference last Monday, one day before Sun's unveiling, to announce their version of a $1,000 network computer--one that runs on Intel Pentium chips, supports Microsoft Windows and Windows NT, and includes a hard drive, just like a standard personal computer. "I call it a PC in a corset," scoffs Sun's McNealy. "They can pull the strings as tight as they want, but it's still a PC." McNealy claims that the Microsoft-Intel initiative was organized over...
...disappointed that no mention was made of Microsoft's latest attempt to thwart Netscape's growth: re-engineering the Windows NT product to decrease the number of users who can browse the Net simultaneously. Microsoft knew that Netscape was very popular in the Windows NT environment, and crippled its own product to try to limit Netscape's success. I think business should be about creating the best product and fair competition in the marketplace, not about using control over an operating system to make a competitor's product less effective. It is about time people realize that Microsoft...
...explosive growth with a mixture of curiosity and concern. He knew that the Net was important, but for most of the past two years, Microsoft's resources had been strained as thousands of programmers, marketers and customer-support people slogged through nearly complete overhauls of Windows and Windows NT, the company's marquee operating systems. Gates knew he needed to get as many bodies as possible onto Net projects as fast as possible, a warp-speed course correction that would require superhuman devotion to the Microsoft mission. Fortunately, Gates knew that was one thing he could count...
...position in the market for business desktops, which is becoming saturated, and move into the so-called SOHO (small office, home office) market, which is growing at an estimated 20% a year. Microsoft has begun advancing on Lotus by adding Notes-like groupware features to Windows 95 and Windows NT. And pursuing what may be its most important source of revenue in the next few years, Microsoft continues to work relentlessly on Novell's and Oracle's biggest customers, arguing that it would simplify their lives to have Microsoft software run all their operations, from the back-office file server...
...Microsoft represents the best of ourselves or the worst," says Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and a longtime Gates watcher. According to G. Pascal Zachary, author of Showstopper! (Free Press; $22.95), a book about the making of Windows NT, the company is the model of a new, postmodern corporate culture, perfectly suited to survive in an era of rapid technological change. The Microsoft way, says Zachary, writing in Upside magazine, is neither purely individualistic (the American approach) nor consensus driven (the Japanese style) but a third way he calls "armed truce," in which employees are encouraged to challenge everybody, even...