Microsoft exhibits Windows NT today, targets high-end users of Unix systems

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Microsoft Corp will introduce its $495 Windows NT operating system on May 24, 1993, but the software will not actually be available until the end of July. Customers who already own a copy of Windows can buy NT for $295. 'Advanced server editions,' which run on file servers, will cost $1,495 for six months, after which the price is expected to double. Microsoft Chmn Bill Gates says he expects his company to sell 1 million copies of NT during the coming year. Gates admits that this is not a large number compared with sales figures for MS-DOS or Windows, but it is large compared with sales of other high-end operating systems. NT will compete with Unix and with proprietary systems such as IBM's OS/2.

Computer peripheral equipment, not elsewhere classified, Product Announcement, Microsoft Windows NT (Operating system), Product Introduction, Competition

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Operating System; opening of 'Windows' shows how Bill Gates succeeds in software; Microsoft founder bargains, frets, badgers engineers and never tires of games; an early zeal for capitalism

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Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates is the single most influential personality in the computer industry, a fact that will be reinforced by his company's introduction of the Windows 3.0 graphical user interface. Gates is an odd mix of technological visionary, crafty dealmaker with a competitive, almost childlike obsession with winning. Windows 3.0 is expected to succeed where Microsoft's other operating system, OS/2, has so far failed. Windows 3.0 is an easy-to-use command system with advanced graphics that supports existing applications, but uses memory and power more efficiently. Analysts expect the release of Windows 3.0 will bring in some $350 million in sales to Microsoft in the next year.

Computer industry, GUI, Graphical user interfaces, Management Style, Microsoft Windows 3.0 (GUI)

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Gates quietly bids for electronic rights to works of art

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Bill Gates of Microsoft Corp is securing electronic rights to works of art through a privately funded group named Interactive Home Systems. Gates is offering to pay a one-time fee for non-exclusive rights to works of art, including photographs and paintings. The Microsoft CEO indicates that he is only 'playing around,' but many in the art industry and computer industry are suspicious. Gates effort is to compile a pilot database of 10,000 images before he decides to compile a more extensive database of one million images; he is not indicating how much he is investing in the project. Gates indicates that the database, if successful, will have educational as well as entertainment value.

Officials and employees, Social policy, Copyright, Copyrights, Art, Patents, Patent/Copyright Issue, Image

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