Microsoft announced shipment of the final release of the Direct3D application programming interface (API), as part of the Microsoft DirectX 2 API software development kit (SDK).
Attachmate today announced they will adopt Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 as their preferred Web browser and will develop ActiveX Controls that add rich new features for users of ActiveX-supported browsers.
Data General Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., Intel Corp., Intergraph Corp., Network Appliance Inc. joined with Microsoft to announce support for a remote collaborative file-sharing technology called the Common Internet File System.
Microsoft demonstrated its next-generation Directory Server, designed to combine the best of DNS and X.500, integrated in one easy-to-use, flexible implementation.
Microsoft Corp. today announced it will extend the Internet and intranet functionality in the Windows NT Server version 4.0 operating system by integrating Microsoft Search Server (code-named “Tripoli”) and its FrontPage Web authoring and site-management tools into the product.
Reversing a common notion, European information systems managers find the Microsoft Windows NT Server network operating system to be more open than leading versions of UNIX and other enterprise operating systems, according to an independent survey.
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates outlined Microsoft’s strategy to deliver products and services that connect desktops, LANs, client-server applications, legacy systems and the Internet to create dramatically more effective corporate computing systems.
Microsoft PictureTel Corporation announced they are submitting their jointly owned application-sharing protocol to the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) for consideration as a new component of the T.120 ITU standard for interoperable data conferencing.