From sj-approval Fri Aug 4 12:30:20 1995 Return-Path: Received: by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA11837; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:34:03 -0400 Received: from emout04.mail.aol.com by world.std.com (5.65c/Spike-2.0) id AA11789; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:34:01 -0400 Received: by emout04.mail.aol.com (1.37.109.11/16.2) id AA031028220; Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:30:20 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 16:30:20 -0400 From: RUBENEWS@aol.com Message-Id: <950804163020_130622399@aol.com> To: sj@world.std.com Subject: NET NOTES 10 Sender: sj-approval@world.std.com Precedence: bulk Reply-To: sj FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NET NOTES 10 COLUMN (This column of source material is written specifically for journalist colleagues around the globe. This information is not for publication. Please share with as many journalist netters as possible.) By Ruben Sosa Villegas c1995 More Windows 95-related information: BILL GATES E-MAIL: billg@microsoft.com MICROSOFT WEB PAGE: http://www.microsoft.com Windows 95: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/ Win95 technical information and support: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/support.htm Win95 data sheet: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/product/data.htm General Win95 information: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/product/DSHEET.HTM Windows Third Party Product Information: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/thirdparty/htm Windows KnowledgeBase: http://www.microsoft.com/KB/ MICROSOFT 95 VIDEO Microsoft is producing 5 million copies of the "Microsoft Windows 95 Video Guide" featuring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry of the NBC television show "Friends." The video will feature easy instruction to the top 25 features of Win95. MAILING LISTS: "Microsoft WinNews Newsletter" - Created by Microsoft's Personal Operating Systems Division to issue the latest announcements and resources for Microsoft word. Limited to announcements. List Name: WINNEWS Subscription Address: ENEWS@MICROSOFT.NWNET.COM Owner: owner-winnews@microsoft.nwnet.com "Microsoft Windows" - List to discuss Windows and related topics like problems, tips, ideas, etc. List Name: WIN3-L@UICVM.UIC.EDU Subscription Address: LISTSERV@UICVM.UIC.EDU Owner: Tom Cervenka, ctct100@uicvmc.aiss.uiuc.edu "Microsoft Windows Help Compiler" - list to discuss Windows Help compiler. All contributions are archived. Those files available by sending an "INDEX WINHLP-L" command to LISTSERV@ADMIN.HUBERC.ON.CA. List Name: WINHLP@ADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA Subscription Address: LISTSERV@AADMIN.HUMBERC.ON.CA USENET NEWSGROUPS alt.destroy.microsoft - self explanatory alt.online-service.microsft - discussion on Microsoft Network Internet provider alt.os.windows95.crash.crash.crash - early test runs have not impressed alt.windows.cde - discussion of codes alt.windows.text - discussion of text alt.winsock - discussion of socket implementations for MS Windows ba.windows.x - discussion of windows misc. bit.listserv.win3-1 - general discussion of MS Windows comp.binaries.ms-windows - binary programs for Microsoft WIndows (moderated) comp.emulators.ms-windows.wine - a free MS-Windows emulator under X comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows - web browsers for MS Windows comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows - web servers for MS Windows and NT. comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy - debate about Microsoft Windows comp.os.ms-windows.announce - announcements relating to MS Windows (moderated) comp.os.ms-windows.apps - applications in the MS Windows environment comp.os.ms-windows.apps.comm - MS-Windows communication applications comp.os.ms-windows.apps.financial - MS-Windows financial & tax software comp.os.ms-windows.apps.utilities - MS-Windows utilities comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc - MS-Windows word-processing applications comp.os.ms-windows.misc - general discussions about MS Windows issues comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc - Windows and other networks comp.os.ms-windows.networking.tcp-ip - Windows and TCP/IP networking comp.os.ms-windows.networking.windows - Windows' built-in networking comp.os.ms-windows.misc - general discussions about MS Windows issues comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup - configuring Windows NT systems. comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.controls - controls, dialogs and VBXs comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.drivers - Win16/Win32 drivers and VxDs comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.graphics - GDI, graphics and printing comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.memory - Memory management issues comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc - programming Microsoft Windows comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.multimedia - multimedia programming comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.networks - network programming comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.ole - OLE2, COM and DDE programming comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools - development tools in Windows comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 - 32-bit Windows programming interfaces comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.winhelp - WinHelp/Multimedia Viewer development comp.os.ms-windows.setup - Installing and configuring MS Windows comp.os.ms-windows.video - video adapters and drivers for Windows comp.windows.garnet - The Garnet user interface development environment comp.windows.interviews - the InterViews object-oriented windowing system comp.windows.misc - various issues about windowing systems comp.windows.news - Sun Microsystems' NeWS window system comp.windows.open-look - discussion about the Open Look GUI comp.windows.suit - The SUIT user-interface toolkit comp.windows.ui-builders.teleuse - using/augmenting the TeleUSE UI Builder comp.windows.ui-builders.uimx - using and augmenting the UIM/X UI Builder comp.windows.x.announce - no description available for this newsgroup comp.windows.x.apps - getting and using, not programming, applications for X comp.windows.x.i386unix - the XFree86 window system and others comp.windows.x.intrinsics - discussion of the X toolkit comp.windows.x.motif - no description available for this newsgroup ed.windows.x - X Windows, Edinburg systems fido.ger.windows.prog - no description available for this newsgroup fido.ger.windows.tp - no description available for this newsgroup fr.comp.windows.divers - systemes de fenetrage n'ayant pas de groupe specifique fr.comp.windows.ms - environnement graphique Microsoft-Windows fr.comp.windows.nextstep - interface utilisateur NeXT Step fr.comp.windows.x11 - systeme de multifenetrage X11 francom.ms.windows - Le Windows de Microsoft osu.windows.misc - no description available for this newsgroup osu.windows.ms.ctl - no description available for this newsgroup osu.windows.x - no description available for this newsgroup relcom.comp.os.windows.prog - no description available for this newsgroup rpi.windows.x - X Window System on Rensselaer machines slac.users.windows.x - no description available for this newsgroup t-netz.pgp.tools.windows - ehemals zer.t-netz.pgp.tools.windows t-netz.windows - ehemals zer.t-netz.windows t-netz.windows.source - ehemals zer.t-netz.windows.source t-netz.windows.treiber - ehemals zer.t-netz.windows.treiber tnn.window.windows - discussions about Microsoft Windows umn.cs.windows.x - discussion about the X windowing environment umn.itlab.windows.x - no description available for this newsgroup uw.x-windows - no description available for this newsgroup FTP AND GOPHER A list of books about MS Windows 3.1 at: Anonymous FTP: sunsite.unc.edu (path) /pub/UNC-info/IAT/guides/ug-09.txt Gopher: sunsite.unc.edu (choose) UNC-CH Information and Facilities / Institute for Academic Technology Documents for Browing / guides / irg-09.txt FTP://ftp.microsoft.com - Microsoft's anonymous FTP server Gopher://gopher.microsoft.com - microsoft's gopher server MEDIA REPORTS NEW YORK TIMES / BUSINESS DAY section, Monday, July 31, 1995 "Windows of Opportunity for Microsoft" by Steve Lohr, p. C1 - "Late in August, the Microsoft Corporation plans to begin selling its 272nd software title. But it is clear that Windows 95, the latest version of the software that runs some 100 million of the world's personal computers, is much more than just another new product." "The Rival: Bracing for a Microsft Onslaught, Apple Sees No Reason to Panic," by John Markoff, p. C3 - "In Silicon Valley it is fashionable to predict that the imminent arrival of Windows 95 spells the ultimate demise of Apple Computer Inc." "The Customers: Computer Users Told To Go Slow in Change Of Operating Systems" by Laurie Flynn, p C3 - "When it finally goes on sale on Aug. 24, Microsoft's Windows 95 will be better, faster and easier to use than any previous version of the software. So why is Brian Mott, a computer consultant to small and large companies, telling his clients not to buy?" "On the Net: The Real Siginficance of Windows 95 is Reaching The Web With A Single Click of the Mouse" Technology column by Peter Lewis, p. C4 - "It's damn the subpeonas, full speed ahead. Unless the Justice Department pulls the plug in the final countown days before Aug. 24, the Microsoft Corporation is preparing to start its most ambitious, and potentially most lucrative, venture since Bill Gates won the job in 1980 of providing IBM with a piece of software called DOS 1.0." "Advertising: Haven't Heard of Windows 95? Where have you been Hiding?" by Stuart Elliott, p. C4 - "To introduce Windows 95, the Microsoft Corporation is amassing almost every weapon in the advertising arsenal short of hiring planes to fly over computer stores towing banners that bear the address of its World Wide Web site. . . . Home Shopping Network Inc. and the QVC Inc. unit of the Comcast Corporation, are devoting programs to WIndows 95 that include demonstrations by Microsoft technicians." NEW YORK TIMES, Aug. 1, 1995, P B5 "Personal Computers: What is Using Windows 95 Really Like" by Stephen Manes - "Operating systems are essentially programs meant to run other programs." NET NOTES 10 -30- -----------------------------------------------------------