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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, NYSE: MSFT) is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Microsoft)
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Netskills Corner |
Justin MacNeil reviews FrontPage '98 Beta. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges |
Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project. |
November 1997, issue12, regular column |
Electronic Resource Creation and Management at Scottish Universities |
Dennis Nicholson and Martin Smith describe the Catriona II project. |
March 1998, issue14, project update |
A Knight's Tale: Networked CD-ROM Redirectors |
Jon Knight describes how MSCDEX.EXE and networked CD-ROM redirectors can introduce difficulties when using Windows 95 and NT to provide access to library CD-ROMs. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Web Focus: Animate Your Pages |
Brian Kelly gives an introduction to Dynamic HTML, explaining recent developments that enable dynamic web pages to be produced using simple scripting languages such as Javascript. |
March 1998, issue14, regular column |
Task Force Meeting |
Kelly Russell reports on the US CNI Conference. |
March 1998, issue14, event report |
The Access Catalogue Gateway to Resources |
Terry Hanson explores how libraries might develop effective ways of indicating their access arrangements to their users. |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
Project Patron |
Elizabeth Lyon and Jon Maslin describe this JISC eLib Programme project (Performing Arts Teaching Resources Online). |
May 1998, issue15, feature article |
What Is XML? |
Brian Kelly elucidates another infuriating three letter acronym: XML. |
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Public Libraries Corner: Elvis Is Alive and Well and Selling Library Management Systems in Kansas City |
Sarah Ormes reports from the American Public Library Association conference in Missouri. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
Web Focus: The 7th World Wide Web Conference |
Brian Kelly is interviewed about the 7th World Wide Web Conference upon his return from Brisbane. |
May 1998, issue15, regular column |
RDF Seminar |
Matthew Dovey reports on the RDF seminar held in the Stakis Hotel, Bath. |
May 1998, issue15, event report |
Down Your Way |
Sarah Ormes visits a public library in Huyton, Liverpool, England. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Web Focus: Ways of Exploiting New Technologies |
Brian Kelly discusses Intermediaries: Ways Of Exploiting New Technologies. |
July 1998, issue16, regular column |
Web Focus: Institutional Web Management |
Brian Kelly reports on the Netskills Institutional Web Management Workshop held in Newcastle. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
What Are Document Management Systems? |
Brian Kelly explains the concept of document management systems. |
September 1998, issue17, regular column |
ALA '98 |
Ian Winship reports on electronic library related activity at this year's American Library Association Conference in Washington D.C. |
September 1998, issue17, event report |
Transatlantic Bandwidth: How to Save Money on Your Costs |
Sally Hadland, Information Officer at the Higher Education National Software Archive (HENSA), describes how using HENSA can save on transatlantic bandwidth. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
The ExamNet Project at De Montfort University |
David James Houghton introduces the ExamNet Project, which offers access to past De Montfort University examination papers in electronic form. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
Launching an Electronic Magazine: An Overview of Value-added Features and Services |
Bernadette Daly looks at a variety of electronic publications as part of the research phase in the delivery of a new Web magazine. |
December 1998, issue18, feature article |
CEDARS |
Kelly Russell explores the main deliverables of the CEDARS project: recommendations and guidelines, plus practical, robust and scaleable models for establishing distributed digital archives. |
December 1998, issue18, project update |
Minotaur: When Computer Knows Best? |
Harold Thimbleby criticises the urge to upgrade. |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Web Focus: The Role of the Web Editor |
Brian Kelly asks, does 'web editor' mean Unix guru or an HTML coder? |
December 1998, issue18, regular column |
Editorial introduction to Issue 19: Ariadne's Thread |
Philip Hunter and Bernadette Daly introduce the articles for Ariadne issue 19. |
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Minotaur: From Mac to Linux and Back? |
Tony Grant on why a former Macintosh fan has fallen for Linux. |
March 1999, issue19, regular column |
Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge introduces his regular column on Windows NT with a description of Site Server's search facility. |
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Unix and the Web: Providing Web Access to Your Email |
Brian Kelly introduces a regular column on Unix and Web issues by describing how a combination of Apache, PHP and IMP can make email folders available using a web browser. |
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WebWatch: Conclusions from the WebWatch Project |
Brian Kelly sums up conclusions from the WebWatch Project. |
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The DISinHE Centre |
Professor Alan Newell asks: How can technology assist with the obligations of HE to support staff and students with disabilities? |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
The Web Editor: From 'One Stop Shop' to Information Hierarchy |
Rebecca Linford discusses the web editor role: from 'one stop shop' to information hierarchy. |
June 1999, issue20, regular column |
Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge discusses Active Server Pages (ASP) - one of the most useful facilities provided by Windows NT server. |
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Web Focus: Report on the WWW 8 Conference |
Brian Kelly discusses WWW8 in Toronto, which took place in May 1999. |
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Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing? |
Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one. |
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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
June 1999, issue20, news and events |
Search Engines: FAST, the Biggest and Best Yet? |
Phil Bradley explains how 'FAST' has recently been launched as the most comprehensive of the search engines, and this article compares the FAST results with those of AltaVista and Northern Light. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Biz/ed Bulletin on Business and Economics |
Libby Miller looks at recent changes to Biz/ed and describes some new sites. |
September 1999, issue21, regular column |
Windows NT Explorer |
Brett Burridge on Internet Information Server (IIS 4.0) |
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Unix: What Is mod_perl? |
Ian Peacock explains mod_perl technology for supercharging the Apache Server. |
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Web Focus: Report on "Institutional Web Management Next Steps" Workshop |
Brian Kelly reports on the latest "Institutional Web Management Workshop," this year called: "The Next Steps." |
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WebWatch: UK University Search Engines |
Brian Kelly explores the search facilities used by UK university Web sites. |
