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As the Department of Justice goes on the attack against Microsoft Corp.'s bundling of its on-line service with Windows 95, Microsoft is readying contingency plans that may include the removal […]

Although Microsoft Corp. has managed to please corporate testers with the latest drop of its Windows NT 4.0 beta software, the software still lacks some fundamental features that could trip […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to ship in September administration tools that will let IS shops manage Windows NT servers across the Internet using a standard Web browser. These tools promise to […]

Microsoft Corp. and Digital Equipment Corp., in an effort to displace mainframes with Windows NT servers, are set to launch separate NT clustering initiatives. Microsoft last week released the APIs […]

Picture this: a world where the Internet is unremarkable because it is everywhere. Corporate computer users will open files stored on the Internet as if they were opening a file […]

Microsoft Corp. is quietly preparing to roll out this month a second beta of Windows NT 4.0 that adds system management tools to let IS managers administer PCs from any […]

When the Santa Cruz Operation Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co. announced at UniForum this month a joint development effort to create a new 64-bit Unix OS, they promised a platform quite […]

The unified Unix initiative based on a 64-bit operating system being developed by Hewlett-Packard Co. and The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (SCO) is already starting to fray. Last week at […]

The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. (SCO), the leading provider of Unix system software, will counter archrivals Sun Microsystems Inc. and Microsoft Corp. in April by bundling Internet services directly in […]

Microsoft Corp. may have sold more than 17 million copies of Windows 95 since last August, but the tide at corporate sites is increasingly turning to Windows NT on the […]

Notebook users running Windows 95 can expect Microsoft Corp. to significantly improve life on the road with a series of Windows updates scheduled to start shipping in the second half […]

Feeling in the holiday mood, Microsoft Corp. shipped early beta copies of its forthcoming Windows NT 4.0 upgrade to 32 core developers and users late last month, but Network OLE […]

As the Windows NT boat fills up with users en route to Cairo, Microsoft Corp. is reassuring users that the passage to its next-generation enterprise operating system will be smooth. […]

Even though corporate customers are only gradually upgrading to Windows 95, third-party software vendors who missed the first wave of Windows 95 support may be punished for their tardiness. That […]

Windows NT is expected to become a significant force on corporate desktops next year, following a first-quarter face-lift and moves by hardware vendors to bundle the 32-bit OS on Pentium […]

Look out, IS managers: Just when you thought you were getting settled in a 32-bit world, here come mainstream 64-bit operating systems. Microsoft Corp.'s Business Systems division is already at […]

Although many users say the number of bugs cropping up in Windows 95 are relatively minimal, Microsoft Corp. has recently issued fixes for several bugs big enough to stumble over. […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.'s best efforts to reassure users that its intentions are strictly honorable, the Windows 95 Online Registration Wizard continues to raise many users' suspicions that the company is […]

ANNOUNCED SQA Inc. last week announced SQA Suite for Windows 95 and Windows NT, 32-bit versions of its client/server application automated testing suite. The company has not announced pricing or […]

All roads are not going to lead to Cairo after all. Microsoft Corp., in a move that has long-term repercussions for Windows deployment at IS sites, has given up any […]

The Santa Cruz Operation Inc. sketched out the future of its Intel-based Unix server product line, including a 64-bit version code-named Olympus, at the SCO Open Forum last week. Only […]

Ready or not, here it comes. After more than two years of development, nine months of delays, and a beta program involving half a million users, Microsoft Corp. this week […]

Microsoft Corp.'s plans to create three-tier computing architectures in conjunction with Digital Equipment Corp. appears to be drawing heavy support from IS sites interested in integrating legacy systems with PC […]

As IBM gears up to defend itself against a two-pronged assault from archrival Microsoft Corp., the company is finding that some of its most stalwart allies are hedging their bets […]

If Microsoft Corp. delivers on its promise, users soon will scarcely be able to distinguish between Windows 95 and forthcoming versions of Windows NT Workstation. On top of adding the […]

IBM's PowerPC systems have finally made it through the gate, but applications for the platform's first PC operating system, Windows NT 3.51, may be slow to catch up. Although Windows […]

Microsoft Corp. is bracing itself to support the millions of users expected to install Windows 95 immediately, but Microsoft and third parties are lining up utilities to help walk users […]

Redmond, Wash.--Acknowledging that Windows 95 has been overhyped, senior Microsoft Corp. officials last week outlined an operating system strategy that leans toward a larger role for Windows NT as a […]

Three months before the scheduled release of Windows 95, some corporate IS managers who have evaluated Windows 95 are considering migrating their desktop clients to Windows NT Workstation instead. And […]

As the latest carrot in its campaign to win over ISVs, IBM plans to develop a new set of APIs that it promises will pave the way for Windows developers […]

While Microsoft Corp. claims that a change to how memory resources are handled in Windows 95 memory is an easily fixable bug and not a design flaw, the company is […]

Win95 beta lays egg: Operating system freezes running 32-bit multitasking apps What was publicized as the largest beta program in history failed to turn up a fundamental architectural flaw in […]

Microsoft Corp. has ironed out enough kinks in the latest beta release of Windows 95 so that what started out for users of legacy hardware as Plug and Pray is […]

Next week Microsoft Corp. releases the beta of Windows NT 3.51, an incremental upgrade of NT notable for the introduction of multithreaded OLE, which should speed up processing of OLE […]

A year ago the conventional wisdom said that Windows NT was a big disappointment to Microsoft Corp. But at the first Windows NT Server Professional Developers Conference in Seattle earlier […]

With three release deadlines already come and gone, IBM last week said it has rethought its ambitions for the Workplace OS technology and redefined its original promise of OS 'personalities' […]

Mindful of Intel's recent Pentium misfortunes, last week Microsoft Corp. slipped the delivery date of Windows 95 for the third time, for fear that the operating system's ease of installation […]

Only nine months after shipping Windows 95, Microsoft Corp. is readying two upgrades to the 32-bit OS. The upgrades are aimed at appeasing OEMs with long lists of new features […]

Microsoft Corp. this week will ship the second beta versions of its Windows NT 4.0 Workstation and Server operating systems, more than six weeks later than the company's original rollout […]

Despite Microsoft Corp.'s stated goal of positioning Windows 95 as a stepping-stone to Windows NT for large corporations, there will be no easy, automated upgrade from Windows 95 to NT […]

At this week's Internet World '96 conference, Microsoft Corp., IBM, Apple Computer Inc., Novell Inc., and Sun Microsystems Inc.'s SunSoft division will announce plans to more closely integrate Sun's Java […]

Lynx Real-time Systems Inc. is readying an update to its real-time Unix operating system that will run on multiple platforms and support applications developed in the Java programming language. Due […]

A tempest has blown up about whether Microsoft Corp. will build a global directory service into Cairo, the next generation of Windows NT. Although Microsoft last week reiterated its commitment […]

Microsoft Corp. plans to unify its support for hardware device drivers to help ease the hardware support burden for IS. The company will announce a single device-driver interface for Windows […]

Although Microsoft Corp. will release the first iteration of Network OLE this summer in Windows NT 4.0, some analysts and developers warn that the upgrade will not contain all the […]

Developers at the Microsoft Professional Developers' Conference in San Francisco last week were treated to a preview of Microsoft's OS plans for the next two years. Microsoft officials last week […]

IBM will deliver on its promise to bring its speech-recognition technology to Merlin, the code name for the next generation of OS/2 Warp, due later this year. 'Merlin will have […]

After more than a year and a half of development and testing, Caldera Inc. this week at Uniforum in San Francisco will release the Caldera Network Desktop, a Linux-based operating […]

Two new viruses that attack Windows 95 systems surfaced last week, one relatively benign and the other potentially dangerous. The new virus Boza can infect as many as three Win32 […]

For the Unix world, it's 64 bits or bust. At UniForum '96 this week in San Francisco, the biggest names in Unix will give users a glimpse of their 64-bit […]