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...rhetoric with action. Over the past three months, Microsoft programmers have released a stream of new products designed to seduce Net users away from Netscape. With everything from software giveaways to massive developer conferences (Microsoft rented 40 movie theaters on July 16 for a programmers' gathering), the gang from Redmond, Washington, has pressed home one message: Microsoft is playing for keeps...
...Internet-content group that will spend tens of millions of dollars this year. He has even withdrawn $1.5 billion in R.-and-D. money from a $6 billion cash stockpile Microsoft has tucked away against the sort of rainy business days they aren't used to seeing in Redmond...
They had come to see whether the Flatbush branch of the Brooklyn Public Library ought to share in a $3 million grant that would wire it to the Internet. Donald Kaplan, who works for the library system, recalls that the emissaries from Redmond, Washington, were dubious: "One of them asked, 'Will this be like the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy, where a Coke bottle falls out of the sky and no one knows what to do with it?'" Kaplan shrugged off the gibe, saying, "No, it'll be like the movie Field of Dreams--build it, and they will...
...computer software ever had such a splashy introduction. Special lights on the Empire State Building, free newspapers in London and a party in Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, headquarters with Tonight Show host Jay Leno heralded the debut of Windows 95. And the hype apparently worked: the new software, which is easier to use than previous versions and offers access to the Internet with the click of a mouse, has been selling briskly. Not that Wall Street was impressed; by week's end Microsoft stock was down...
...flailing OS/2 computer operating system, IBM announced that it would include the new Microsoft operating system with some of its PCs. "It took IBM a while, but it was almost inevitable that they would eventually offer Windows 95, too,"TIME's David Jacksonreports from Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, where IBM executives attended a launch party for the software. "Any personal computer maker not offering this product is going to have a tough time, at least in the near term...