A man who sees Microsoft's future in Windows

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Jim Allchin, Microsoft Corp.'s senior vice president of personal and business systems, considers the development and rollout of Windows 2000 operating system software for network servers to be essential to the company's continued financial success, as well as helping the Redmond, Washington concern achieve its goal of dominating the server software market. Allchin, hired in 1990 by Bill Gates, is both a strong defender of the company and one of its harshest critics. The programming expert, whose 1983 Ph.D. thesis envisioned a "logically centralized, physically decentralized" global operating system, believes the Windows 98 operating system for personal computers is at the end of its technological life, yet has spoken of Windows NT as "a way of life." This attitude is reflected in Allchin's approach to software development: focus on the soundness of the architecture and the "how's" and "why's" of problem-solving rather than just results.

Systems Software Pkgs (Micro), Management, Officials and employees, Product development, Operating system, Operating systems (Software), Marketing, Operating systems, Design and construction, MSFT, Microsoft Windows 2000 (Operating system), Allchin, Jim, Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 (Operating system)

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RealNetworks tries to protect its niche; Microsoft targets domain of Web-media pioneer

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Microsoft Corp. hopes that its Windows Media Player technology becomes the preeminent means to receive audio and video streams over the Internet. At present, however, rival RealNetworks Inc. holds about a 90% share for this streaming technology. The company states that its video playback software has about 32 million users. Microsoft's media player, on the other hand, has about five million users. Microsoft believes that multimedia represents the next major phase in the development of the Web. A Microsoft official stated that the company, which almost missed the first phase of the Web, will do anything not be left behind when the Web enters its next stage. To this end, the company has given its Media Player away as a free component of its Windows 90 operating systems and its Internet Explorer Web browser.

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RealNetworks states that its video playback software has about 32 million users

Strategy & planning, Sales & consumption, Company Planning/Goals, Channels of Distribution, Article

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Intel is expected to license technology to enhance video quality on Internet

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Intel is expected to license its Streaming Web Video software technology to Microsoft rival RealNetworks, according to insiders. Streaming Web Video enhances World Wide Web video picture quality and smooths shaky images by allowing microprocessors to work faster. RealNetworks can deploy the technology in its competition with Microsoft to present television-quality pictures on the Web. Insiders charcterize the Intel-RealNetworks agreement as nonexclusive but add that no licensing deal has been arranged yet between Intel and Microsoft. An announcement has been scheduled for today at an Intel conference in Palm Springs, CA, but neither Intel nor RealNetworks commented on the deal. The agreement also illustrates a move by Intel to work with competitors of Microsoft, its longtime Wintel partner,

Software, Internet, Intel Corp., INTC, Licensing agreements, Company licensing agreement, Streaming media technology, Streaming media, Multimedia software, Internet server software, Internet/Web server software

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