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Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) has acquired some of the assets of Connectix, a software company best know for Virtual PC. (Industry Watch).


Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry.  (www.microsoft.com) has acquired some of the assets of Connectix Connectix Corporation was a software and hardware company, noted for having released innovative products that were either made obsolete as Apple Computer incorporated the ideas into system software, or were sold to other companies once they become popular. , a software company best know for Virtual PC, an emulator Hardware, software or a combination of the two that enables a computer to act like another computer and run applications written for that computer. In the past, it was often a hardware add-on that actually contained an instruction execution module for the emulated computer.  that allows Microsoft's Windows software to operate on Macintosh computers. Connectix, like Microsoft, also offers server technology.
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Author:Angelo, Jean Marie
Publication:University Business
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Date:Mar 1, 2003
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