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...nearly 40% of the PC software industry's revenues of $8 billion and commands 90% of the crucial market for system- control software. Microsoft's disk operating system, known as MS-DOS, is now installed on about 60 million IBM-compatible personal computers, or 75% of all the PCs in the world. Competitors claim Microsoft abuses its market power, but the company was cleared of all antitrust charges in a Federal Trade Commission probe in February. Last week a federal judge dismissed Apple's $5.5 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against Microsoft as well...
...Microsoft's office-automation strategy, however, is the operating system known as Windows, the follow-on program to DOS. Introduced in 1985, Windows makes PCs easier to use by replacing the arcane written commands of DOS with friendly pictorial instructions, called icons. Microsoft has sold more than 25 million copies of Windows, which ranks second only to DOS in total sales. Last month the company launched Windows NT, a program designed to allow office computers to be linked together...
Microsoft introduced its feverishly anticipated and much delayed new Windows NT operating system, which can run expansive networks of personal computers as easily as the original Windows system operates individual PCs...
Even Richard Stallman cannot abide by this high standard. To do anything more than beep when it is turned on, a computer needs an operating system. PCs require DOS, Macs use System 7, and workstations and mainframes use UNIX...
...almost as fast as some supercomputers. The chip, the size of a thumbnail, contains 3.1 million transistors. Not only does the Pentium -- which will be the "brain" of personal computers -- have plenty of giddyap, it will be priced at levels that are relatively low for new- generation processors. PCs incorporating the Pentium could cost as little...