Recent News

July 1, 1996

Microsoft Corp.’s EasyBall mouse, the company’s first input device designed for children ages 2 to 6, has won top honors from the Industrial Designers Society of America.

July 1, 1996

The Microsoft Empowerment Pack for the Mac provides users with a powerful set of tools designed to enhance their presence on the Internet, increase their computer’s performance, and improve their system’s memory.

June 28, 1996

The WWShipNet site offers an easy-to-use gateway to these types of transportation industry tools

June 26, 1996

Microsoft Corp. has released for broad beta testing its proxy server, code-named “Catapult,” making it available today for downloading from the World Wide Web at http://microsoft.com/infoserv/catapult/.

June 24, 1996

Microsoft expects the addition of Steve and Walter to aid in efforts to broaden the impact of the Internet for customers and developers.

June 24, 1996

Microsoft announced it is teaming with The Chauncey Group International Ltd. to provide nationwide testing centers and employment agencies with the Certified Microsoft Office User program.

June 24, 1996

Microsoft Launched to bring thought-provoking, high-caliber journalism to the Internet’s World Wide Web, Slate, an interactive magazine of politics, culture and public policy edited by Michael Kinsley, debuts online today.

June 18, 1996

This week, the world’s leading developers of architecture, design and engineering software are demonstrating a new generation of solutions built to take advantage of the Microsoft Windows NT Workstation and Windows 95 operating systems.

June 18, 1996

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates discussed the future of computers and technology with six of America’s brightest and creative minds.

June 17, 1996

Microsoft Corporation today praised the United States Trade Representative (USTR) for securing new commitments from the Chinese government to enforce the Intellectual Property Rights Agreement signed in February 1995.