An edge for Sun as Microsoft embraces Java
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Microsoft plans to announce at Internet World 1996 that it will add Sun Microsystems' Java to Windows 95, giving Sun's stock an added boost and advancing Microsoft's own Internet strategy. Microsoft's operating systems run 80% of the PCs worldwide, and some claim Java makes operating systems obsolete, because Java-based applications can run on any platform. Microsoft plans to avoid the danger of obsolescence by adding Internet services to its operating systems. Sun's benefits from the deal are likely to be more indirect. Sun licenses Java to a number of software vendors, but the revenues generated do not match the company's development costs. Sun hopes to recoup some of its investment through the development of programming tools and applications made with Java. Analysts claim that Microsoft's decision gives Java a clear lead in the Internet field, and Sun's stock continues strong, rising $1.375 to close at $55.75 on Apr 24, 1996.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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Microsoft plans new bid for Internet control
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Microsoft plans a number of new technologies in its effort to overtake Netscape Communications as the predominant supplier of Internet-related software. Microsoft says it will 'embrace and extend' the de facto standards that already exist on the Internet. The company has already released Web browsers and will demonstrate Windows 97, an operating system with an integrated browser. Microsoft plans to integrate its Front Page site-development tool into Windows NT 4.0. Microsoft is also promoting its Active-X technology, which permits its OLE software to work on the Internet. However, Netscape claims, and analysts tend to agree, that Microsoft's efforts will not succeed because the Active-X technology seeks to impose a proprietary framework on the Internet. Netscape also says that a combined operating system and browser will not succeed. Netscape claims that 92 of the 100 largest companies in the US use its software.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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Microsoft, ever hungry, looks for new conquests
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Microsoft openly acknowledged that it was planning to expand its computer software empire by embracing digital television and the business-network market. James Allchin, a senior VP at Microsoft, stated the company's strategy in its Windows NT Server 5.0 is integration. Microsoft will also use integration to enter the consumer electronics market. The company's new operating system Windows 98 will allow home computers to act as interactive televisions. Microsoft has already released a version of Windows for consumer-electronics called Windows CE. Windows CE is used in hand-held units and will be the software used in Microsoft's set-top TV boxes. The company acquired WebTV Networks and invested $1 billion in Comcast in an effort to control the agenda for digital television.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1997
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