Microsoft says it's going after Internet market
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Microsoft Chmn Bill Gates outlines an Internet strategy that has the company adding Internet capabilities to all of its products as it strives to become the dominant player in the Internet market. Gates states that the Internet will be the driving force behind all work on Microsoft's products. Prior to the announcement, the market had seen Microsoft as slow to appreciate the impact the Internet could have on the company. Some analysts claimed that the Internet would sap Microsoft's market, since it would be more important than any application found on the desktop or network. Microsoft's response includes licensing the Java programming language and announcing that it will support and build on any technology used by a significant number of Internet publishers. At the same time, the company is developing its own Internet technologies that it hopes will become industry standards. The announcement deflated stocks of Internet companies and start-ups.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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Netscape knows fame and aspires to fortune
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Computer software startup Netscape Communications is hoping that its Netscape Navigator Internet World Wide Web browser will become a standard in the still nascent online services and transaction processing market. The company has a tough competitor in the field in the Mosaic navigator, which was initially developed by the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois and is now licensed by Spyglass Inc. Various software leaders are taking sides by choosing to support one or the other browser in their products. Netscape has signed a deal with Novell to incorporate Netscape Navigator into Novell's network software. Microsoft, however, has chosen to include Spyglass' Mosaic browser in its next Windows release.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1995
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Through the Internet with a pair of rival guides: why not hire both?
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The average user is the likely winner in the marketing competition between Microsoft and Netscape. Currently, the two dueling companies are offering their new Web browser software free, in the case of the Microsoft product, and for a deferred $49 registration fee in the case of Netscape's product. In addition, the two companies are offering bundled packages of Internet services, which include the The Wall Street Journal Interactive and Investors Edge in the Microsoft package and stock quotation services and the Web-version of the New York Times in the case of the Netscape bundle. Given the overriding fact that both products have features that are commendable, many users will opt for selecting both browsers.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: Business, general
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1996
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