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...developing a product that can compete with Lotus Notes, which dominates the market for "groupware" (the software that helps people brainstorm over these networks). Novell's NetWare still controls two-thirds of the market for the software that runs the office systems, despite Microsoft's best efforts with Windows NT. And Microsoft's sql Server is still struggling to win customers from Oracle, which owns almost half the market for the critical database software that stores the corporate world's most important information...
Eight out of 10 of the world's personal computers could not boot up (that is to say, start) if it were not for Microsoft's operating-system software-programs like MS-DOS, Windows and Windows NT. What is even more impressive (not to mention profitable) is that the company also dominates the market for almost every big-ticket application program, like word processing (Microsoft Word), electronic spreadsheets (Excel), filing (Access), scheduling (Project) and the new all-in-one program "suites" (Office). Microsoft's Flight Simulator is one of the best-selling PC games of all time. Microsoft's electronic...
Although many of its features have existed in OS/2 or Windows NT for years, Windows 95 still represents a significant computing breakthrough. And, whether you consider Microsoft the Evil Empire or not, the sheer number of people that will experience Win 95--through upgrades or new computer purchases--will make it an instant market player...
...first significant change is direct support for 32-bit applications. The much-hyped 32-bit moniker describes the size of the chunks of memory that the computer can handle--four gigabytes in this case. Most versions of UNIX, Windows NT and OS/2 are all 32-bit operating systems...
While Sun is itself working on Windows NT and MacOS versions of the software, the company is opening the doors to other possible versions (such as a Windows 3.1 version) by making the source code available online so that programmers can experiment freely...