Microsoft installing a team for new look in computers

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Microsoft Corp hires former supercomputer executive Craig Mundie and six supercomputer engineers to design a new computer architecture capable of supporting digital interactive cable television applications. The company wants to spur the development of low-cost controllers that can process high-speed streams of digital video information, a function that the current generation of microcomputer devices cannot adequately perform. Microsoft has no plans to manufacture such hardware itself, but would like to influence its development to open a market for future software products. The company followed a similar strategy while developing its Windows NT operating system. Meanwhile, Microsoft's negotiations with Tele-Communications Inc, Time Warner and such companies as AT&T and US West to form the Cablesoft interactive cable joint venture are languishing due to disputes concerning Microsoft's role.

Prepackaged software, Radio & TV communications equipment, Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Research, Microsoft Corp., Processor architectures, Industrial research, MSFT, Employee selection, Digital video, Interactive video systems, Research and Development, Interactive Video, Hiring, Computer design, Processor Architecture, Interactive Cable

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A 'gunslinger's' growing pains: charting change at Sun Microsystems through its sometimes inexplicable mottos

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Sun Microsystems Inc seems to have rolled through its 1989 troubles that included management defections and a $20.3 million loss in its 4th qtr 1989 to emerge as a stronger, more mature company. The company has long been known for its 'gunslinger' approach to management and product development under the stewardship of 36-year-old Scott McNealy, the company's chairman. Lately, however, the firm has modified its unconventional approach to include a few more management controls. Sun was co-founded by McNealy and three other graduate students in 1982, and the company has grown to support a work-force of 13,000 with sales of $3 billion in 1990. Sun even managed to gain a single point of market share in the workstation market in 1990, perhaps the most competitive arena in the computer industry.

Management, Sun Microsystems Inc., SUNW, McNealy, Scott, Workstations, Management Style, Company Profile, Computer Industry

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