Recent News

May 13, 1996

Microsoft began shipping more than 200,000 copies of the beta 2 versions of the Microsoft(r) Windows NT(r) Server version 4.0.

May 13, 1996

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 10, 1996

This month, Universal Studios Florida will debut Terminator 2 3-D, a spectacular interactive 3-D attraction based on director James Cameron’s blockbuster feature “Terminator 2.”

May 8, 1996

Microsoft Corp. announced today that 58 financial institutions have committed to offering online banking using Microsoft(r) Money through a group of leading banking-software vendors and banking-processing companies.

May 7, 1996

Microsoft Corp. today expanded its efforts in electronic software distribution (ESD), announcing a set of requirements for distributors and resellers interested in distributing and downloading Microsoft(r) software to end users via the Internet.

May 7, 1996

Microsoft Corp. and Tandem Computers Inc. today announced a strategic alliance that will further accelerate the adoption of the Microsoft(r) Windows NT(r) Server network operating system by customers of business-critical servers.

May 6, 1996

Microsoft Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. today announced they are collaborating on a new universal font format that will combine today’s leading TrueType(r) and Type 1 font technologies.

May 6, 1996

Jay Conrad Levinson exclusively previews a chapter from his newest book on the emerging “profit alliances” trend on the Microsoft Small Business Resource World Wide Web site.

May 2, 1996

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.

April 30, 1996

Microsoft Corp. today updated its Microsoft BackOffice family of integrated server software to include messaging and groupware, a high-performance Web server and an updated database, all with built-in support for the Internet and intranets.