May 13, 1996
OLifE Specification Takes Hold

OLifE from Microsoft Corp. has secured a position as the pre-eminent specification for data integration in the life-insurance industry, garnering praise from established ISVs, support from leading insurance companies, and adoption by one of the industry’s most important standards bodies.

May 2, 1996
Microsoft Publishes ActiveX Protocol on the Web

Microsoft announced publication of a document that describes the binary network protocol for DCOM – the Distributed Component Object Model – a key ActiveX technology for building powerful Internet and intranet applications.