July 8, 1996
Microsoft Confronts Software Pirates in Texas

Microsoft Corporation today announced the results of an anti-piracy initiative in Texas aimed at protecting honest software distributors and curbing the illegal distribution of Microsoft operating system software, including MS DOS and the Microsoft Windows family.

June 13, 1996
Microsoft Ships Direct3D

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).