Microsoft Announces Windows 95 for the Macintosh OS
By Steve Ballmer
REDMOND (AP) -- In a press conference Friday morning, Microsoft Corp. announced that the Redmond software giant will ship a special version of Windows 95 for the Macintosh OS.
A spokesman for Microsoft said that "Windows 95 has some
special key features that the Mac OS just doesn't have. We are in a
position to create thousands, if not millions, of new technical support
jobs with Windows 95. We'd obviously like Apple users to benefit from this
as well."
"We expect a lot of growth in the Macintosh market in the
next five to ten years," said Microsoft Chairman, Bill
Gates. "The combined resources of Microsoft and the many
Macintosh clones that will soon become available will allow us to make
Windows 95 easier and more fun for a broader range of
people."
Gates described Microsoft's long-term strategy to develop a scalable OS
architecture that will support all platforms through emulation. A single
core OS will be offered with a choice of interfaces according to the OS
desired -- "One OS, a couple of different
implementations," said Gates.
"We've spent a lot of time and money on a new marketing
campaign for Windows 95, but in the end we decided it was just as easy to
buy Apple. We get an extra platform for Windows 95 and some engineering
staff who know what they're doing. By shipping the Mac OS under the Windows
95 logo, we actually get Windows 95 into the store on time. I just hope
nobody notices that it's not the latest version being shipped by
Apple."
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