TECHNOLOGY - July 26, 1996
Times Staff and Wire Reports
AT&T;, Microsoft Announce Internet Pact: Telecommunications giant AT&T; Corp. and software superpower Microsoft Corp. announced that they would jointly promote and distribute Microsoft’s Web browser, Internet Explorer 3.0, and AT&T;’s Internet service, WorldNet, starting in the fall. The alliance was another plus for Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft’s effort to displace Netscape Communications Corp.’s Navigator Web browser as the dominant software for accessing the burgeoning Web, the graphical, point-and-click section of the Internet. It also gives Basking Ridge, N.J.-based AT&T;’s Internet access service, introduced in February, equal billing on the Windows 95 desktop with CompuServe, America Online and Microsoft’s Microsoft Network.
