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Article: Windows NT Makes Microsoft a Force in Computer Workstations and Servers.(Originated from The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- February 18, 1996
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Feb. 18--There's bad news on the horizon for folks who love to hate Microsoft Corp., the world's dominant producer of software for personal computers.
While sales of Windows 95 fell below some of the most optimistic forecasts, Windows NT is coming on like gangbusters.
The obvious potential market for Windows NT is smaller than that of Windows 95, but NT is making Microsoft a force to be reckoned with in the lofty realm of computer workstations and servers traditionally dominated by competitors.
And there's an odd little twist to this story since the typical desktop computer used by business and industry today is very much like the workstation of ...