MICROSOFT OFFICE97
Microsoft announced that Office97 will be available in to their corporate Select customers yet this year and the retail release has been pushed back to January 1997. (Source: Infoworld, 9/23/1996).

SOFTWARE PIRACY
According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), software producers lose US$15.2 billion in worldwide sales to software piracy. US$1.8 billion of the loses occur in the United States, Japan and Germany. Software companies are fighting back. BSA and the Software Producers Association (SPA) were created to represent the software industry in the fight against the piracy. In 1995, SPA collected US$2.6 million in penalities and in the first five months of 1996, BSA collected US$2.5 million in fines. (Source: PC Week, 9/23/1996).

MOTOROLA MACS
Motorola announced that it will begin making PowerPC based Macintosh clones under the StarMax title and WindowsNT desk tops and servers under their PowerStack II line. The two StarMax models will feature a 160MHz or 200MHz processors, 16MB RAM and will range from US$1,595 to $2,395. The six models of the PowerStack computers will range from US$2,495 to US$4,999. (Source: PC Week, 9/23/1996).

WEB SITE OF THE MONTH
This month's Web site is the T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project. TWINKIES stands for Tests With Inorganic Noxious Kakes In Extreme Situations. The site contains the results of the seven "scientific" tests (resistivity, radiation, gravitational response, turing, rapid oxidation, solubility and maximum density) conducted on Hostess Twinkies (TM). The T.W.I.N.K.I.E.S. Project address is: www.owlnet.rice.edu/~gouge/twinkies.html
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Technology Tidbits is published monthly by Jerry Price, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
© 1996 Jerry W. Price

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