Press Releases

July 17, 1996

Standards-based Solutions to Two Key Problems Limiting Multimedia Communications Today on the Internet – Finding People and Getting Connected

July 17, 1996

This fall, Microsoft will break new ground when it launches Mungo Park online travel magazine, the world’s first interactive travel and adventure web-zine to feature real exploration. This web-zine is for people who have climbed Mt. Everest or those who have ever enjoyed an Indiana Jones movie.

July 16, 1996

At the WorldWide Live! Activating the Internet event hosted today by Microsoft Corp., 11 companies announced new Web sites that will provide information, education and products for Web professionals and developers using the Microsoft ActiveX standard.

July 16, 1996

Microsoft announced that the ActiveMovie API, the next-generation digital video and audio technology for the desktop and the Internet, will be included as part of Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0.

July 16, 1996

Microsoft Corp. today announced it has teamed with ForeFront, a developer and marketer of Internet technologies, to integrate ForeFront’s graphical bookmarking tool, GrabNet 2.0, into a number of Microsoft desktop applications for the Windows 95 operating system.

July 16, 1996

Microsoft Corp. today announced that the second beta version of its Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Web browser is now available for immediate download over the Internet.

July 16, 1996

Program Offers Information, Training, Support and Business Development; Contest Offers $1.1 Million in Prizes

July 16, 1996

More Than 20,000 Technical Web Designers to Receive Concept-to-Implementation Instruction For Building Active Web Sites

July 15, 1996

As part of the agreement, Kao will purchase and operate Microsoft’s Canyon Park production facility in Bothell, WA, and offer employment to all of the facility’s 400-plus manufacturing employees.

July 15, 1996

As part of the company’s annual scholarship program, Microsoft Corp. today announced it has awarded more than 100 scholarships totaling over $526,000 to undergraduate college and high school students across the United States.