
Microsoft WinNews Electronic Newsletter, 
Vol. 1, #1, July 13, 1994
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Welcome to the first edition of the Microsoft WinNews 
Electronic Newsletter.  Despite the fact that this is the 
first edition, you've probably already noticed something has 
changed -- the name of our newsletter. We've renamed POSNEWS 
to WINNEWS to stay consistent with all of our other Windows 
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This issue covers five topics:

1. Special Invitation to  Windows 95  and the IS 
   Manager'
2. News Release: Microsoft Selects DSP Group's TrueSpeech 
   for Windows  95
3. News Release: Industry Rallies Around OLE
4. Using the WinNews List Server
5. Where to get more information

We hope you find the information useful, and presented in an 
easy to read format.By the time you receive your next issue 
there should be a feedback mailbox in place for you to send 
us your comments.

Enjoy!

P.S.  Check the date on the TrueSpeech press release... 
can't get more up to the minute than that, can you?

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Microsoft Corporation invites you to join us for an in-depth 
look at Windows "Windows 95's" features and benefits for the IS 
manager.  See how Windows 95 can help reduce end user support 
burden, increase IS control over the desktop, and increase 
end user productivity.  Demonstrations will also showcase 
Windows 95's new user interface, multi-tasking capabilities, 
great application support and critical features designed to 
make life easier for the IS manager.

           Windows "Windows 95" and the IS Manager
               Brad Chase, General Manager
           Personal Operating Systems Division
                  Microsoft Corporation

Wednesday, July 27, 1994
9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Arie Crown Theatre at McCormick Place
2301 South Lake Shore Drive
Windows 95, Illinois

Advanced registration for this special event is not 
necessary.  We encourage you to arrive early as space is 
limited and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Editors' Note:  This news release is issued jointly by 
Microsoft Corp. and DSP Group, Inc.

MICROSOFT SELECTS DSP GROUP'S TRUESPEECH FOR Windows 
"WINDOWS 95"

Enables Quality Speech Compression in Next Generation 
Personal Computers

Redmond, Wash. and SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- July 14, 1994 -- 
DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:DSPG) and Microsoft Corporation 
(NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced that Microsoft will use DSP 
Group's TrueSpeech(r) speech compression technology in its 
upcoming Windows 'Windows 95' release.  Quality speech 
compression is a key to the successful convergence of 
computers and telephony. TrueSpeech enables high quality and 
efficient processing and transmission of speech essential 
for business and consumer applications.

        Quality speech compression is important for any 
personal computer or personal communication device using 
digitally compressed speech.  The importance is apparent in 
applications such as collaborative computing, voice mail, 
PC-based training and development.

        "Incorporating TrueSpeech into Windows 95 is evidence 
of Microsoft's commitment to using leading edge technologies 
to make Windows 95 the highest quality multimedia system for 
developers and end-users," said Rogers Weed, Microsoft's 
Windows product manager."

        TrueSpeech speech compression greatly simplifies 
sharing digitally processed speech between computing 
devices.  A single standard for speech compression means 
computer systems can share digitally processed speech. 
Without a single standard, it is like people speaking many 
languages without any common ground.

        Davidi Gilo, chairman of DSP Group, explained, "We 
realized a few years ago that end-users would benefit 
greatly from a digital speech compression technology which 
is a standard.  We are quite pleased with Microsoft's 
acknowledgment of our technology.  It takes us well along 
toward the goal we envisioned."

        TrueSpeech compression is a technology based on 
complex mathematical algorithms which are derived from the 
way airflow from our lungs is shaped by the throat, mouth, 
and tongue when we speak.  This shaping is what our ear 
finally  hears. TrueSpeech is 5 to 15 times more efficient 
and effective than other methods of digital speech 
compression.  For example, a one minute long speech file 
which uses  other PC audio technology would consume as much 
as 960 kilobytes.  With TrueSpeech, the same file would be 
just over 60 kilobytes. This reserves more valuable 
computing capability for additional functions.

	According to Will Strauss, president of Forward 
Concepts (Tempe, Ariz.), a leading market research firm 
specializing in multimedia technology:  "Speech compression 
is a driving force for the converging applications of 
personal computers and telephony. However, having a speech 
compression standard is critical to being able to use speech 
easily and interchangeably.  This move by Microsoft goes a 
long way toward establishing TrueSpeech as the de facto 
standard."

        TrueSpeech evolved from years of work by DSP Group 
on low cost, high quality speech compression for the digital 
answering machine market.  Since DSP Group pioneered and is 
a leading supplier of digital speech chips for answering 
machines, many of today's digital answering machines use 
this same technology for storing and playing back speech.

        "As next generation Windows operating systems and 
TrueSpeech become widespread in the market, the benefit of 
standard speech compression will become a given," commented 
DSP Group's Gilo.  "Microsoft has the opporunity to include 
TrueSpeech in future versions of Windows."

        Today, there are over 50 million personal computers 
using Microsoft Windows and  over 2 million new machines 
shipping with Microsoft Windows each month.

        In addition to today's announcement regarding 
Microsoft operating systems, TrueSpeech is being included in 
product development by a variety of personal computer and 
semiconductor companies including Analog Devices, Compaq, 
Intel, Motorola, Silicon Systems, VLSI Technology, and 
others.

        Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader 
in software for personal computers.  The company offers a 
wide range of products and services for business and 
personal use, each designed with the mission of making it 
easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of 
the full power of personal computing every day.

        DSP Group, Inc. develops and markets enabling 
digital signal processing and digital speech technologies 
and products for the PC, multimedia, and communications 
markets.  Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, the 
company offers digital speech and video algorithms, DSP core 
technology, and integrated DSP-based  solutions.  DSP 
Group's technologies and products have been adopted or 
endorsed by industry leaders including Microsoft, Motorola, 
Intel, VLSI Technology, Sony, Sharp, Panasonic, Philips, 
Siemens, GEC Plessey, Matra, Alcatel, British Telecom, 
France Telecom, Spain Telefonica, and others.

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TrueSpeech is a registered trademark of DSP Group, Inc.
All other trademarks and registered trademarks are those of 
their respective companies.


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Industry Rallies Around OLE

Lotus, WordPerfect, Borland, Micrografx and 150 Other ISVs 
Will Support OLE in Their Applications; 75 Companies in Open 
Market Data Council Adopt OLE-Based Standards; New Windows 
Platforms to Add 32-Bit OLE Capabilities

	REDMOND, Wash. -- July 11, 1994 -- Microsoftr OLE 
technology is gaining momentum as top software vendors 
announce OLE support for their products and corporations 
embrace OLE for enterprisewide applications.  "OLE is an 
important technology for Borland.  We're developing 
significant tools to help customers migrate their existing 
applications to the OLE world," said Paul Gross, vice 
president and general manager, languages, Borland 
International, Inc.  WordPerfect Corporation has also 
announced it will be the first to offer OLE 2.0 
functionality in five suite applications in its 
PerfectOffice suite of products.

	In the securities industry, the Open Market Data 
Council, consisting of more than 75 leading vendors of 
information technology, has developed a set of OLE-based 
standards for supplying and accessing real-time data for 
applications based on the Microsoft Windows(tm) operating 
system.  Called Windows(tm) Open Services Architecture 
Extensions for Real-Time Market Data (WOSA/XRT), the 
standard provides a mechanism for seamless exchange of 
information between market data feeds and applications that 
support OLE.

OLE Delivers Component Software

	"OLE is a cornerstone of our overall systems strategy 
and delivers the benefits of component software to users 
today," said Jim Allchin, vice president of advanced systems 
at Microsoft.  Component software provides a standard means 
of defining what a software component is and how components 
can interact in a synergistic manner -- without the 
developer having to know anything about how the individual 
components work.  Allchin added, "OLE can lower the cost of 
computing by giving users and developers more software 
choices and greater flexibility.  Today's OLE applications 
will run unchanged and work even better with our next 
generation of Windows platforms, as a result of new levels 
of integration between the applications and the system."

New Windows Platforms Offer 32-Bit OLE

	The next release of the Windows NT(tm) operating 
system, code-named "Daytona," will be released this summer 
with the first implementation of 32-bit OLE, including 
support for multithreaded applications.  "Graphics-intensive 
software requires the horsepower that 'Daytona' and 32-bit 
OLE provides," said Tom Steele, president of Intergraph 
Software Solutions.  "Thirty-two-bit OLE will enable us to 
innovate in ways that really differentiate our products in 
the CAD marketplace."

	The beta version of Windows "Windows 95" shipped last 
month with the same 32-bit OLE as "Daytona."  "We've been 
using the latest Microsoft Windows 'Windows 95' beta, and it is 
proving to be a fantastic enabling platform for our 
professional graphics applications, Micrografx Picture 
Publisher and Micrografx Designer," said Paul Grayson, vice 
president of development for Micrografx, Inc.  "OLE is a key 
enabling technology for our entire suite of graphics 
applications.  Without OLE, features that are crucial to our 
success would not be possible.  One of our applications, ABC 
Toolkit, is going to blow people's minds with its 
implementation of OLE Automation."  Both Windows "Windows 95" 
and "Daytona" support 16- and 32-bit OLE application 
interoperability.

More OLE Applications Each Month

	Microsoft released a new version of the OLE 
applications catalog, which lists more than 300 products 
that take advantage of OLE, including word processing, 
spreadsheet, graphics, database, multimedia and decision-
support applications as well as a variety of programming 
tools to make OLE development easy.  CorelDRAW is one of the 
catalog entries.  "In 1992, CorelDRAW3 was one of the first 
applications to fully embrace OLE technology," said Eid Eid, 
director of CorelDRAW engineering at Corel Systems 
Corporation.  "Our early success with OLE encouraged us to 
extend its benefits to all our key graphics applications.  
Corel VENTURA5, scheduled to ship in late July 1994, will be 
the first professional publishing program to support Visual 
Editing.  We feel OLE has given us competitive advantage and 
enhanced features that are important to the success of our 
product."  

	The catalog also contains more than 20 OLE Custom 
Controls add-in products.  OLE Custom Controls is an 
architecture that migrates the popular VBX architecture to 
OLE technology, allowing applications to be built from 
reusable components.

Windows "Windows 95" Logo Means OLE Compatibility

	To qualify for the Windows "Windows 95"-compatible logo, 
products must be OLE-enabled, which ensures consistency and 
compatibility among applications and the operating system.  
"The benefit to our end users is that when they obtain new 
Windows-based 'Windows 95' applications, they will 
automatically know these applications will work together and 
act alike," said Doug Henrich, director of developer 
relations at Microsoft.  "Consistency and compatibility are 
what customers want, and OLE is the means to provide them.  
OLE is here today, being used by ISVs, corporate developers 
and users."

	Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is the 
worldwide leader in software for personal computers.  The 
company offers a wide range of products and services for 
business and personal use, each designed with the mission of 
making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take 
advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.

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Microsoft  and Microsoft Press are registered trademarks and 
Windows and Windows NT are trademarks of Microsoft 
Corporation.
Macintosh and Apple are registered trademarks of Apple 
Computer, Inc.
Micrografx is a registered trademark and Micrografx Design 
is a trademark of Micrografx, Inc.
Other product and company names may be the trademarks and/or 
the registered trademarks of their respective companies.

Editor's Note:  Windows NT is a trademarked product name.  
Please do not abbreviate in any way.

OLE FAST FACTS
* At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference 
(December 1993), 4,850 of 5,000 attendees produced an OLE-
enabled version of their products to run on Microsoftr 
Windows(tm) Windows 95."
* More than 25,000 "Inside OLE2" books have sold, placing 
the series on the Microsoft Pressr best-sellers' list.
* More than 60,000 developers have the OLE SDK (includes 32-
bit OLE).
* More than 2,500 beta copies of the version of OLE 2.0 for 
the Macintoshr were released at the Appler Worldwide 
Developers Conference in May 1994 (including 1,000 that went 
out in three hours).
* Microsoft Works for the Macintosh and Microsoft Excel for 
the Macintosh, which include the version of OLE 2.0 for the 
Macintosh are shipping today.
* More than 100 applications are shipping today with support 
for OLE 2.0, and more than 200 are committed before Fall 
COMDEX, representing more than 150 companies.
* A new version of the OLE applications catalog is produced 
monthly; an average of 50 new applications are included with 
each update.
* More than 10 million applications have shipped with 
support for OLE.
A copy of Word 6.0 is shipped every four seconds.  Word 
includes five OLE objects -- that's one OLE object shipped 
every .8 seconds!
* More objects in use today are based on OLE than on any 
other object technology.
* OLE Custom Controls recently won the "Most Significant New 
Technology" award at the Spring COMDEX in Atlanta.  In 
addition, OLE 2.0 has won numerous industry awards, 
including the 1993 PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award, 
the MVP: Software Innovation Award from PC/Computing, and 
the Technology Award for Excellence from BYTE magazine.

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bigpic7.asc - which API's are implemented where?  Win32 on 
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winnews.idx - this index

inetqna.asc - a short Q&A on Windows 95 and the Internet

game2pr.asc - press release on WinG, the new Windows GAMES 
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oleqa.asc - a Q&A on OLE under Windows 95

pr-agent.asc - press release on the backup agent 
incorporated into Windows 95

shivapr.asc - press release announcing collaboration between 
Microsoft and Shiva Corp

wad11094.asc - Windows at Deadline - January 1994

wad426pr.asc - Windows at Deadline - April 1994

wfw394pr.asc - Windows at Deadline - March 1994

ch50mlpr.asc - Spring COMDEX 1994 announcement that Windows 
sales have now passed 50 million units

wnhcpr.asc - press release about the Windows Hardware 
Engineering Conference in Feb 1994

chpnppr.asc - plug and play press release from Spring 
Windows World

creatpr.asc - announcement that Microsoft and Creative Labs 
will work together

hppr.asc - Microsoft and HP announcement on the Laserjet 4

pionpr.asc - Pioneers Awards given out at Spring Windows 
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atwserpr.asc - Leading telephony vendors support TAPI

cutestpr.asc - announcement of first Windows 95 Beta shipments

dsppr.asc - announcement of Windows 95 DSP Resource Manager 
Interface

pirac6pr.asc - massive police raids net pirates

winrelpr.asc - announcing WinNews!

lehman.asc - Gates speech to Lehman Bros.  Industry futures, 
visions

gatcmx93.asc - Gates keynote address at fall COMDEX

bill_ema.asc - Gates keynote address to the EMA

tapiqna.asc - Q&A on Windows Telephony

tcpipqna.asc - Q&A on TCP/IP support in Windows 95

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Where can I get the latest information on Windows 95, directly 
from Microsoft?

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electronic distribution points for new whitepapers, press 
releases and other pertinent documentation.  Use the 
following electronic addresses to access further 
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On the Worldwide Web (mosaic) 	
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On the Internet		
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On Compuserve	
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On Genie	
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On America Online	
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CHICOQA4 ZIP        51,086  06-29-94  2:52p Chicoqa4.zip

The May 1994 Windows 95 Q&A.  Answers most basic questions 
about the Windows 95 project, including networking, memory 
management and others.

CHIC_MGT ZIP       133,422  06-29-94  4:34p Chic_mgt.zip

A whitepaper detailing Microsoft's strategy for making 
Windows 95 a more manageable and easier to administer client in 
corporate networks.  Specifically talks about Windows 95 and 
the Desktop Management Interface (DMI) spec, among other 
things.

CHIC_NET ZIP       248,600  06-29-94  3:04p Chic_net.zip

A whitepaper detailing how Windows 95 supports 
networks,including details of the Client Service for 
Netware.

INETQ&A  ZIP         6,306  06-29-94  2:17p Inetq&a.zip

A short Q&A on Microsoft and the internet.

MMEDIA   ZIP       434,399  06-29-94  2:45p Mmedia.zip

A collection of files on developing multi-media apps for 
Windows 3.1 and Windows 95.  Includes backgrounders on what
multi-media is, information on writing games using the new
WinG gaming libraries, and screen shots from ID Software's 
upcoming version of the popular DOOM for Windows.

OLE      ZIP       543,038  06-29-94  3:21p Ole.zip

3 files on Microsoft's Object Strategy, OLE 2, and questions
and answers about OLE 2, especially as it relates to SOM and 
DSOM.

PNP      ZIP       160,007  06-29-94  3:27p Pnp.zip

A backgrounder document on plug and play.

PR       ZIP       251,115  06-29-94  4:26p Pr.zip

A collection of Windows 95 related press releases from late 
December of 1993 until now.

SPEECH   ZIP       183,840  06-29-94  2:12p Speech.zip

Three speeches by Bill Gates on his vision of the computer 
industry and where Windows 95 fits in.

TAPI     ZIP       102,911  06-29-94  4:38p Tapi.zip

Background information on Windows new Telephone API (TAPI) 
and how this fits into Windows 95.

TCPIP    ZIP         7,573  06-29-94 10:45p Tcpip.zip

A short Q&A on Windows 95 and TCP/IP networking.

WIN32    ZIP       153,761  06-29-94  5:08p Win32.zip

4 documents on writing Win32 apps, including the Win32 API 
comparison chart.

REVGUID3 ZIP     2,242,789  06-30-94  2:19p Revguid3.zip

The Windows 95 Beta 1 reviewers guide.  A 300 page document 
detailing all features of Beta 1.

REVWW6   ZIP     1,042,321  06-30-94  2:27p Revww6.zip

The Windows 95 Beta 1 reviewers guide in its original Word for 
Windows 6 format.

PR-AGENT ZIP        12,709  06-30-94  2:40p PR-AGENT.ZIP

Microsoft / Arcada press release on how Arcada's backup 
technology is being integrated into Windows 95.

RESKIT   ZIP       816,378  07-12-94 11:36a RESKIT.ZIP

The Windows 95 Beta-1 Resource Kit.  Contains implementation 
information on setting up Windows 95 on networks, installing 
Windows 95 over existing Windows installations, Windows 95 
security features and more.

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