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MS sets UK, Irish dates for DevDays tour
News Microsoft has set UK and Irish dates for its mammoth 'DevDays' tour for developers to get to grips with its new wave of client-server, Internet and intranet tools. The tour is to cover over 80 sites in 40 countries.
[February 25, 1997, 9:34]
MS sets UK 'DevDays' developer tour dates
News Microsoft has set UK and Irish dates for its mammoth 'DevDays' tour for developers who want to get to grips with its new wave of client-server, Internet and intranet tools. The tour is to cover over 80 sites in 40 countries.
[February 24, 1997, 19:01]
MS to show IE 4.0, Win CE, FrontPage 97 tomorrow
News Perhaps predictably, Microsoft will be aiming to make the biggest splash of all at the Windows Show '97 starting tomorrow at Olympia, London. The firm will give the first ever global public view of Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 and the first UK view...
[February 24, 1997, 14:03]
MS details C++ 5.0 rev
News Visual C++ 5.0 Professional Edition includes native support for Microsoft's Component Object Model (COM) for ActiveX development, new class libraries and a revamped compiler the firm says builds faster, smaller code.
[February 13, 1997, 15:18]
MS blends native compiler, speed, ActiveX in VB 5.0
News Microsoft has formally announced Visual Basic (VB) 5.0 Professional Edition, claiming a native code compiler and up to 2,000 per cent performance hike as key advantages over the previous iteration. The software also includes ActiveX support...
[February 4, 1997, 15:47]
Borland sues MS over staff poaching
News According to Borland CEO Delbert Yokam, Microsoft has taken on 34 top staff in 30 months and using hard cash incentives ranging up to $1 million. Borland is so desperate to stem the flow that it is seeking a temporary injunction preventing staff...
[May 8, 1997, 15:36]
MS Word Backup File Auto Save Software
Downloads Use this software to automatically save all open Word documents to a separate backup file at an interval that you define. Backups can be set to occur every 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, etc. This application sits in the system tray at the bottom...
[November 15, 2006, 7:00]
MS buys Java specialist Dimension X
News The two-year-old San Francisco-based company's products will be glued into Microsoft's DirectX armoury of multimedia developer tools. They include the Java-based multimedia authoring suite Liquid Motion
[May 8, 1997, 14:42]
MS posts NetMeeting 2.0
News NetMeeting 2.0 allows multiple users to speak with or without video at the same time as sharing and editing documents or presenting ideas on a virtual whiteboard. Key features include the ability to change video windows on the fly; full-duplex...
[May 2, 1997, 10:53]
IBM, Mitel, MS team up for low-cost CTI
News IBM, Mitel and Microsoft today announced a package bringing computer telephony integration (CTI) to small and medium enterprises at an affordable price. MediaPath brings together the Mitel telephony operating system running on IBM servers with...
[April 23, 1997, 16:47]
Member Review Nuggets: MS Mouse puts the chic into geek
News Who's a clever rodent? After 30 years of basically the same design, the humble mouse is in need of a facelift. IntelliMouse Explorer is the new supermodel mouse from Microsoft. The rodent is finished with an industrial-silver with a glowing red...
[May 5, 1999, 10:29]
Intel, MS detail PC98 platform
News PC98 is a draft design guide which suggests basic desktop PC requirements for next year will include a 200MHz Pentium MMX, 256Kb L2 cache, 32Mb RAM, a minimum of one Universal Serial Bus (USB) port and user protection from incorrectly installing...
[April 11, 1997, 16:39]
Intuit's Scott Cook on users, usability and MS
News Intuit is the company that took on Microsoft - in personal finance software - and won. The maker of Quicken is renowned for its quality of user interface design and marketing nous. In an exclusive interview, chairman Scott Cook told PCDN about his...
[April 10, 1997, 17:16]
Compaq, MS, Intel plot digital TV future
News Digital TV promises high-quality video and audio beyond the reach of today's analogue sets. The service proposed would also be interactive and let users receive broadcasts at convenient times by harnessing the Internet as a 'push' delivery mechanism.
[April 9, 1997, 9:24]
Office 2000: MS confirms UK prices and eleven flavours
News Microsoft has confirmed UK prices for the latest version of its popular applications suite, Office 2000, due to be launched on the 8th June. The software giant will be offering no less than eleven different versions of Office 2000.
[May 11, 1999, 11:55]
MS posts IE 4.0 code
News Clearly of the belief that it's better late than never, Microsoft ended the Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview saga at lunchtime today by posting the code on its Web site for users to download. The Standard download recommended by Microsoft...
[April 8, 1997, 14:14]
MS to release C++ for Win CE
News Visual C++ for Windows CE is an add-on to Visual C++ 5.0 that includes the full Windows CE SDK, as well as the Handheld PC shell, file system services and device driver emulation so developers can build Windows CE-based applications on Windows NT...
[April 8, 1997, 9:54]
IE 4.0 up for download everywhere... except MS site
News Microsoft's comedy of errors over the release of the Internet Explorer (IE) 4.0 'Platform Preview' continued, as the giant once again missed a self-imposed deadline for posting pre-release code on its Web site.
[April 8, 1997, 9:43]
Intuit says WebTV buy is MS's leg up to digital TV
News "Microsoft wants to write the operating system for digital TV," Cook said today in a visit to London. My bet is that they're seeking the credentials to build that.
[April 7, 1997, 16:09]
