Short Take: MS, Cisco team

Microsoft announced it will use networking equipment from Cisco Systems for its own internal global layout. The announcement, the latest in a series of moves to bring the software giant and the networking kingpin closer, includes use of Cisco's router and switching technology. Cisco has already completed a worldwide internal rollout of Windows 95.

July 21, 1997 9:15 a.m. PT

announced it will use networking equipment from Cisco Systems for its own internal global layout. The announcement, the latest in a series of moves to bring the software giant and the networking kingpin closer, includes use of Cisco's router and switching technology. Cisco has already completed a worldwide internal rollout of Windows 95.