NETSCAPE LEADER TWEAKS GATES.Byline: Catalina Ortiz Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Netscape Communications Corp. wants to squeeze rival Microsoft Corp. off the business computer desktop. A day after Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. belittled be·lit·tle tr.v. be·lit·tled, be·lit·tling, be·lit·tles 1. To represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant; disparage: a person who belittled our efforts to do the job right. competitors for thinking small, Netscape on Wednesday showed off new software that would allow corporate employees to design their own computer desktops. That would effectively make Microsoft's Windows operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. just one of many programs for grabbing and organizing data. The technology is a direct challenge to Gates and intensifies the fight for control of the burgeoning market for computers linked through private corporate Internets. Microsoft has vowed to ``embrace and extend'' the Internet and corporate intranets. ``We embraced and integrated,'' Netscape Chief Executive Officer Jim Barksdale Jim Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) was the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999. Early life James (Jim) Love Barksdale was born in Jackson, Mississippi. He received a B.A. said in an obvious swipe at Microsoft during his keynote talk at the Comdex trade show, the computer industry's largest. Netscape's new technology, code-named Constellation Constellation, ship Constellation (kŏnstĭlā`shən), U.S. frigate, launched in 1797. It was named by President Washington for the constellation of 15 stars in the U.S. flag of that time. , also would automatically deliver information from the Internet - stock prices or news, for example - that computer users request. The company hopes to incorporate Constellation into its next version of Communicator software for corporate computer networks. The new Communicator software, to be released in early 1997, combines Netscape's popular Internet browser See Web browser. with business software. Communicator will let intranet users move easily among documents, send electronic mail, access databases and other programs, and collaborate on projects. While Microsoft's Windows software controls the basic operations of most personal computers, the company has been challenged by the mass move toward Internet software. Netscape makes Navigator, the most popular software for browsing the Internet's World Wide Web. Microsoft, however, has come back with a browser of its own, Explorer, which it gives away. |
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