Press Releases

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.

July 15, 1996

McKesson Corporation will use the Microsoft Windows NT operating system as the foundation for its new McKesson Point-of-Sale for Windows and McKesson Pharmaserv for Windows solutions, which are community pharmacy products developed by McKesson Pharmacy Systems.

July 15, 1996

The software is designed to give developers, both novices and experts, everything they need to quickly and productively create applications that take full advantage of Java’s capabilities.