Game makers scale back; players have other ideas

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Electronic Arts will change some images on the boxes holding its computerized game products, but it will not change the Pentagon and World Trade Center scenes in the Command and Conquer game itself. Microsoft will remove World Trade Center images from its new release of Flight Simulator due out in October. Game players have created their own version of a game posted on the Internet using UbiSoft Entertainment's Rogue Spear. In the cusomized game, players can enter Afghanistan and kill Osama bin Laden.

United States, Psychological aspects, Influence, Computer games, Computer game, Electronic Arts Inc., ERTS, Terrorism, Product marketing strategy, World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001, UbiSoft Entertainment

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Microsoft's new spreadsheet challenges Lotus

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Microsoft Corp challenges Lotus Development Corp's 60 percent share of the spreadsheet software market with its new $495 Excel 3.0 spreadsheet. This version of the Microsoft spreadsheet is the first to use the Microsoft Windows 3.0 graphical user interface. Analysts believe the latest release by Microsoft may be the most serious threat to Lotus' 1-2-3 spreadsheet since Microsoft Windows 3.0 has become a highly popular graphics-based control program. Windows 3.0 allows users to manipulate screens in a relatively simple way, and in a fashion that is similar to the Apple Macintosh screen. Lotus stock reacts by dropping $2 a share on the Microsoft announcement; the closing value is listed as $16 a share on Dec 8, 1990. Microsoft stock loses $1.375 a share and closes at $73.50 a share on Dec 8, 1990.

Software, Market share, Lotus Development Corp., LOTS, Competition, Computer Software Industry, Software packages, Microsoft Windows 3.0 (GUI)

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The latest Excel leapfrogs its spreadsheet rivals: formidable graphics, easy to use, with a 'convert' button for people used to 1-2-3

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Microsoft Corp's $495 Microsoft Excel 3.0 spreadsheet software, for IBM-and-compatible microcomputers running Microsoft Windows 3.0, is a significant advance over other products on the market. Competitors Lotus Development Corp and Borland International Inc have Windows 3.0-based products under development, but for now, Excel sets a standard. Excel 3.0 makes use of the Windows graphical user interface (GUI) by using mouse interaction and point-and-click icons to create a product the is very easy to use. Excel automates common functions with a feature called 'toolbar' that represents functions as an icon that can be activated with a mouse click. Excel also features a Lotus 1-2-3 conversion function to help 1-2-3 users learn Excel commands by finding Excel equivalents. Other powerful features include a 'solver' function, a choice of 68 different chart styles, and the first use of object linking and embedding (OLE) techniques.

Evaluation, Spreadsheets, Software Packages

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