Sandy Duncan, Microsoft UK’s OEM account manager, has been revealing a few details of what will be on offer from the Redmond, Washington company over the coming weeks and months. Presentation Manager for OS/2 is due about now – an upgrade to it from Microsoft Windows will cost UKP35 – and software applications are to follow. A version of the Excel spreadsheet for Presentation Manager will be out at the same time, and Aldus PageMaker a few weeks later. A new edition of AutoCAD running exclusively under the manager is under development, as is a version of WordPerfect – both for next year. As far as the X Window – PM/X – version of Presentation Manager is concerned it seems that work is still underway at Microsoft to translate the software from Intel assembler code into a C-based application programming interface – API – to enable the thing to run under X Window.
