February 3, 1997 Microsoft Announces Office 97, VAR Edition And OEM Version of Office 97, Small Business Edition VARs Can Now Offer Customized Office Suite
February 3, 1997 Microsoft Announces Visual Basic 5.0, Professional Edition New Version, With Native Code Compiler, Has Performance Gains of up to 2,000 Percent; Advanced Productivity Features Improve Developer Efficiency
January 30, 1997 Microsoft Announces Winners of the BackOffice Challenge For Middle Market Accounting at SoftEx State of the Art and Great Plains Software Win Awards for Their Windows NT- and Microsoft SQL Server-Based Solutions
January 30, 1997 FINA Oil and Chemical Co. Chooses Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 For Corporate Intranet Cites Easy Integration, Continuity With In-House Development and Microsoft’s Internet Vision As Key Factors
January 29, 1997 Microsoft Names Robert Litvak to Manage Talent and Casting For Interactive Media Group Appointment Extends Pioneering Efforts in Interactive Entertainment
January 29, 1997 Network Solutions and Microsoft to Advance Protocols For Distributed Internet Directory Searches RWhois and Common Indexing Protocols to Provide a Scalable Infrastructure For Distributed Searches of Internet Directory Data
January 28, 1997 Microsoft Announces At a Glance Visual References for Microsoft Office 97 New Series Joins Well-Known Line of User-Friendly Computing Guides from Microsoft Press
January 28, 1997 Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Is World’s Fastest-Growing Browser Zona Research Indicates Microsoft Internet Explorer Share Now 28 Percent
January 28, 1997 Microsoft to Contribute VRML 2.0 Reference Implementations To VRML Consortium Shows Strong Support for New VRML Consortium; Developers, Content Creators, Users Benefit From Standard VRML Implementations
January 28, 1997 New Microsoft Office 97 Career Awareness Campaign Puts College and University Students On A Fast Track To Success Academic Pricing Makes Office 97 More Affordable So Student Users Can Be More Marketable