March 18, 1999 Microsoft Launches Major Upgrade to Streaming Media Portal Enhancements to MSN Web Events Give Users Sleek Navigation to More Than 700 Top Media Offerings for Streaming Audio and Video
March 18, 1999 Microsoft Launches Internet Explorer 5, Passport to the Global Online Community Internet Explorer 5 enables the Web lifestyle and offers users a fast, flexible, easy-to-use passport to the global online community.
March 17, 1999 Microsoft Looks to Advance PC Accessibility With One-Year Research Grants Research and Educational Institutions Will Focus on Improving Technology and Tools For People With Disabilities
March 17, 1999 Microsoft Announces Customer Care Initiative for Web Advertisers New MSN Sales and Marketing Customer Research Helps Advertisers Better Understand Online Medium’s Effectiveness and Measurement of Success
March 17, 1999 Microsoft and NTT DoCoMo to Join Efforts to Integrate Wireless Communications and PC Technologies Microsoft and NTT DoCoMo announced a technical and business alliance aimed at promoting development of new products and services using wireless data communication and software technology.
March 17, 1999 Developers Support Windows as Gaming Platform Windows Continues to Grow in Popularity as a Development Platform With Availability of DirectX 6.1
March 17, 1999 Microsoft, Phone Manufacturers Preview Web-Enabled Telephones Powered By Windows CE at CeBIT Easy Access to Caller ID, Voice Messages, E-Mail and the Internet
March 17, 1999 Windows Media Technologies Optimized For Intel Pentium III Xeon Processor Performance and Productivity Boost Enables Streaming Media Content Providers To Lower Costs and Deliver Richer Visual Quality and Realism to End Users
March 17, 1999 Microsoft Publisher Gets an “A” in Customer Satisfaction; Publisher 2000 Works to Keep Up the Grade Receives Customer Satisfaction Rating of Over 90 Percent With Every Release
March 17, 1999 Microsoft and Rhythms Alliance to Focus on New Services For Rhythms’ Business Customers Rhythms to Receive $30 Million Equity Investment From Microsoft; Alliance Offers Rhythms’ Customers a Co-Branded Version of the Microsoft Network