Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Microsoft released version 5.0 of its decade-old DOS operating system, it demonstrated what aggressive marketing could accomplish for a mediocre product struggling to catch-up to its competitors. Unfortunately, the new upgrade shows, once again, that the company made no serious attempts to make DOS user-friendly...
...list of Microsoft's "Innovations" in the new release is a disk-compression program, which can give the user more hard disk space by compressing data before writing them to the disk so they take up less space. When read from the disk, the data are automatically decompressed back to their original form...
...thing DOS 6.0 probably does do better than its predecessors is its memory management. According to Microsoft, the user can now get system memory automatically optimized for efficiency. This should save the user from having so the cryptic CONFIG.SYS file when, say, more memory is added to the system...
...academic year, students paid a $584 user fee and could opt for a $600 insurance plan offered through Blue Cross/Blue Shield. The user fee was up 6 percent from $550 in 1991-92. The cost of the insurance increased less--just eight dollars since...
Skilled programmers with access to the source code can make modifications and additions to any program. Obviously, this is not something that the average computer user will be able...