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.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1993
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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.
Publication Name: The New York Times
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0362-4331
Year: 1991
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