Microsoft boosts Mac's self-esteem
Microsoft engineers say they are empowering the Macintosh with new software.
The Empowerment Pack for the Mac, available for free downloading from the Microsoft Web site, comes with Internet software and a software update for version 6.0 of Word for Mac, which had been sharply criticized for being slow and buggy.
The pack includes the following freebies:
--a collection of Microsoft Internet programs including Internet Explorer
2.0 for Mac and two add-on programs for saving Word and Excel documents as
HTML files, Internet Assistant 2.0 for Word, and Internet Assistant for Excel
--Microsoft Word 6.0.1a Update for Mac, a software refresher for Word 6.0
that improves the application's performance and stability, font handling,
and resolves extension conflicts
--Apple Computer's System 7.5 Update 2.0
and System 7.5.3 Revision 2, two updates to the Mac operating system that
boost performance and application start-up time.
--an offer from Kingston Technology
of 8MB of memory for $69.