Hey, who took the office doors? Rethinking privacy vs. teamwork in today's workplace

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The debate between private offices and cubicles as the superior workplace environment continues in the corporate community, even as nearly every worker's space is shrinking. Microsoft is a great advocate for private workspace. The company assigns all its software programmers individual offices on the premise that this will enable them to better concentrate on their work. Intel espouses the cubicle environment for its workers, believing that the openness inspires a more team-like atmosphere in the workplace. Many high-technology companies are beginning to reevaluate traditional workspaces and realise that unique work processes and work practices can be performed more efficiently when their workers are not forced into traditional spaces.

Management issue, Design and construction, Work environment

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With a whole lot at stake, I.B.M. and Microsoft await year 2000

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Executives from both IBM and Microsoft will be working through the night as the date rolls over from 1999 to 2000. 70% of the world's data is stored on mainframes, a market IBM dominated from the 1960's. Microsoft's Windows operating system runs the majority of the world's personal computers. Both companies plan to fully staff their customer service call centers through the weekend. IBM has worked since the mid-80's to head off Y2K programming and hardware problems in its products. Microsoft has spent the last 3 years fixing date-change-related problems in its 4,000 products.

Electronic computers, Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Computers & Auxiliary Equip, Computer industry, Product information, International Business Machines Corp., IBM, Year 2000 transition (Computers), Company product planning

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Microsoft starts the recruiting for its next war

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Microsoft Corp. has a 90 percent share of desktop computing operating system software. However, the movement towards Web-based applications threatens this market dominence. Initially, Microsoft plans to encourage software programmers to use its Windows DNA 2000 development applications for the Web. It also announced plans for Microsoft Appcenter, software for serving applications software via the Web.

Economic aspects, World Wide Web, Distributed processing (Computers), Distributed computing

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