William Explorer beats Navigator for '96 awards.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- PC Computing, the magazine for
technology-minded business professionals, has announced the hardware, software,
Internet and networking product winners of its prestigious 1996 Most Valuable
Product (MVP) Awards. The winners of these eighth annual MVP Awards were
announced here today at COMDEX/Fall, the giant computer trade show.
The MVP Product of the Year Award, one of the most sought-after honors in the
computer industry, went to Microsoft Corporation for its Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
network operating system. Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.O and Workstation 4.O
also won the 1996 MVP Award for best Operating System.
Microsoft's Product of the Year win is significant on several fronts, according to PC
Computing editors. First, this is the second year in a row that Microsoft -- which won
last year for Windows 95 -- has been awarded Product of the Year honors. And the
Windows NT 4.0 win marks only the second time in the seven-year history of the
awards that a software application has won MVP Product of the Year honors. PC
Computing editors named Windows NT 4.0 MVP Product of the Year because it is
singularly changing the face of computing in corporate America.
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Microsoft dominated the major business software categories, sweeping the MVP
Awards for Business Application Suite (Microsoft Office for Windows 95), Word
Processor (Microsoft Word for Windows 95), Spreadsheet (Microsoft Excel for
Windows 95) and Database (Microsoft Access for Windows 95). Personal finance
and game software winners included Intuit, which was honored in the Personal Finance
category for Quicken Deluxe 5 for Windows and in the Accounting category for Intuit
QuickBooks Pro 4.0. The Game CD-ROM Award went to id Software for Quake.
"Every MVP Award-winning product carries the distinction of being judged the best in
its class -- by a tough panel of uncompromising computing experts," said PC
Computing editor Wendy Taylor. "To select the MVP winners, PC Computing's
editors and lab experts conduct an exhaustive review of thousands of computer
products, evaluating each one for usability, performance, technology, innovation and
value. This rigorous review process distinguishes the MVP Award from other
publications' `best of the year' product awards, since many of these are based on
reader polls or popular opinion," Taylor noted.
In a major upset, Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 won the 1996 MVP
Award in the Web Browser category, defeating market leader Netscape Navigator
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