Bug busters go into overdrive
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Microsoft Corp. is constantly testing for, and fixing, program errors in Windows 2000, its new operating system, before its estimated release in late 1999. More than 4000 computers in 70 labs test the product. Scott Emmons and Landy Wang are among Microsoft's employees who meet daily to strategize about how to correct errors found each day. Windows 2000 contains nearly 30 million lines of source code.
Publication Name: Business Review Weekly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0727-758X
Year: 1999
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Microsoft's latest O.S. impresses out of the blue
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Microsoft's latest NT5.0 operating system, which has not been released yet, is billed as being virtually trouble-free. However, this claim may not prove true when non-Microsoft applications are used with it. NT is supposed to save users money by decreasing administration costs, but it may merely shift administrative work from one network administrator to several units.
Publication Name: Business Review Weekly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0727-758X
Year: 1998
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New-computer buyers will find Windows 98 falls short of the mark
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It is impossible for personal computers available in mid-1998 to take advantage of all the features of the Microsoft Windows 98 operating system. The ASUSTeK display machine at the Jun 1998 Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan, is the only machine that can handle all the Windows 98 functions and it was a one of a kind machine just for the show.
Publication Name: Business Review Weekly
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0727-758X
Year: 1998
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