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State attorneys general may sue to keep Microsoft from shipping the new operating system to PC makers in May. But if the A.G.s relent, or fail in court, and you get the chance to upgrade (at $109 a pop), what to expect? Win 98 is a clear step up from Win 95, but it's an evolution, not a revolution...
...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...
...facto banker? "I don't have any interest in bringing Microsoft into that arena," says Dusche. "Frankly, it's a really tough business." But his boss is a really tough businessman. As banking evolves into a competitive, complex business conducted over the Internet, Microsoft software--just as in the PC era--could become ever more valuable even as the products it enables grow ever less so. "I can go online and find hundreds of checking accounts," says Condon. "Microsoft wants to sell more servers and software, not become a financial institution." But Gates could find the insular banking world...
...among the most innovative in the world. Debit and stored value cards were pioneered in Canada, while both are still just catching on in the U.S. Also, Internet banking is more advanced in Canada, with a higher percentage of bank customers using computer-based distribution channels, despite lower PC penetration...
That Microsoft, Inc., is an important force in high tech today is a given. About 90 percent of all personal computers run some version of Microsoft Windows, and Microsoft Word and Office are the number one word processor and office software suite respectively on both Windows and Macintosh PC's. Novell NetWare, long the dominant product for PC-based networks, is slipping to second place behind Microsoft's NT Server, and the Redmond, Wash., software giant has made inroads into markets previously ruled by database giant Oracle and the web browser king Netscape...