Word: pc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...browse your own hard drive the same way you would the Web. For the record: yes, you can install Netscape Navigator on Win 98 machines, and even run IE and Navigator simultaneously. But IE launches much faster than Navigator, and so far at least, Microsoft won't let PC makers replace the Explorer icon with Navigator's. Gates' critics call this his typical recalcitrance and hope Justice or the states scuttle the Win 98 launch...
Bill Gates wants to turn your PC into a full-purpose multimedia box. Win 98 users who shell out $100 for a TV add-in card can tune in to all the browser-based WebTV content Hollywood can produce--if Microsoft can persuade Hollywood to produce it. Also key: a new DVD driver that should make gaming hotter than ever...
...line. Future Microsoft PC operating systems will be based on Windows NT, the OS first designed for business machines. NT, a more efficient and secure product, marks the company's long-overdue break from the antediluvian MS-DOS. It will also supposedly run most current Windows programs. It had better...
...Microsoft, it's a simple menu guiding surfers to popular sites like Disney and CNN. To Redmond's critics, it's an abuse of monopoly power. The Active Channel Bar "decreases consumer choice," the Software Publishers Association told the Justice Department. In response, Microsoft said PC makers could sell copies of Win 98 with the channel bar hidden. That wasn't enough for SPA president Ken Wasch, who says, "The channel bar should be completely empty," so anyone other than Microsoft can fill...
...Heavy Gear that use Win 95 movie features also might not work properly. (Microsoft says early bugs have been fixed; we'll see.) Then there's Win 98's gluttonous appetite for hard-drive space: if you upgrade, be prepared to surrender around 70 megabytes. But for serious PC users, that's a small price to pay to keep pace with the ever improving Windows. Hey, these days it's almost as good...