Microsoft

National Jul 27, 1998

Will Windows 98 spur PC revival?

by Reiji Yoshida

The Akihabara district of Tokyo, famous for its abundance of electronics shops, once again was in an uproar in the middle of the night. Neon lights flashed at shops that normally close hours earlier as thousands of personal computer enthusiasts milled around shortly before midnight ...

National Mar 12, 1998

Justsystem, Microsoft ready to slug it out over Kanji software

by Reiji Yoshida

It's time for a showdown. The final round of a Japanese word processor war may be beginning, as Microsoft Corp. releases a new version March 12 of its Japanese Word series, Word 98, accompanied with its latest kana-kanji conversion engine MS-IME 98. Justsystem Corp., virtually Japan's ...