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...ever and Apple's savior (Tim Berners-Lee did invent the Web on it); skeptics call NeXT a marketplace failure and an albatross Apple should have left around Steve Jobs' neck. Regardless, it's hard--very, very hard--to see any OS other than Windows--probably the powerful NT version--flourishing under digital networks' natural tendency toward monopoly...
...months ago, rival Hewlett-Packard allied with Microsoft to push the software giant's Windows NT program into corporate servers, the machines that link large computer networks. In 1995 Digital had cut its own Microsoft deal, looking to the burgeoning NT market to fuel its growth. Instead, it is losing ground in a market already dominated by Intel, rather than Digital, chips...
Novell is a company that has been repeatedly torpedoed and nearly sunk by Microsoft. The Utah-based firm (1996 sales: $1.3 billion) owned the market for local- area-network software in the early 1990s, but has been losing share to Microsoft's Windows NT. Though Novell has tried to refocus, its stock recently traded at a near all-time low. Investors are doubting its chances of beating Big Geek (as Microsoft has become known...
College students discovered that Microsoft's web browser has security holes. The bugs affect the Internet Explorer (IE) versions 2.0 and later for Windows 95 and NT 4.0. They also affect users of America Online's browser, which is really just the Internet Explorer...
...unfortunately, are commonly standardized with operating systems' installation, and thus easily deduced. The bug could be a dose of publicity poison for Microsoft, by focusing computer users' fears about security onto both Internet Explorer and the operating systems the browser is so relentlessly paired with: Windows 95 and Windows NT. Microsoft officials said they were testing a solution for the problem and expected to have it quickly posted to the company's site on the World Wide Web. There have been no customer reports of security breaches so far. But now that the flaw has been discovered, the company...