Which Windows? Product Line Gets Blurry at Microsoft
Mark Trumbull, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
WILL the real Microsoft Corp. operating system please stand up?
Everybody knows that Microsoft makes the leading software to run desktop computers. But many companies wonder whether to buy Windows 95, the new version of Microsoft's bestselling software, or use Windows NT, the hardier high-end operating system.
Some customers say even Microsoft has given mixed signals lately about the boundary line between the two products, which once was sharper.
"Some of them are a little upset," says Jesse Berst of Windows Watcher, a newsletter in Microsoft's backyard, Redmond, Wash. Many aren't buying either one.
"We're mostly on 3.1 {the precursor of Windows …
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Article title: Which Windows? Product Line Gets Blurry at Microsoft.
Contributors: Mark Trumbull, writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: January 25, 1996.
Page number: 8.
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