Microsoft ships Windows NT for Alpha systems.

MS-DOS ver. 6.0. Provides the INTERLINK and INTERSVR utilities which allow exchange files between different computers. It was the fastest selling product for Microsoft with 7 million copies sold in the first year.

Adobe's Page Maker 5.0 for Windows.

Microsoft Publisher 2 for Windows.

Microsoft Works 3 for Windows.

Symantec's Q&A ver. 4 for Windows.

Adobe launched Acrobat, a program that allows users of different types of computers to view the same documents complete with graphics and layouts.

Marc Andreessen wrote Mosaic, the first browser program for Internet.

Apple developed Quick Time standard for digital media in December. First used in Macintosh machines, later developed for Windows.

OS/2 for Windows (November) has sold 500,000 in 10 months.

Worldwide installed Database programs (1993):
dBASE for DOS - 6,700,000,
Paradox for DOS - 1,587,000,
Paradox for Windows - 900,000,
Access for Windows - 810,000,
Database for DOS - 702,000,
Fox Pro for DOS - 473,000,
Alpha Four (DOS) - 416,000

PC Spreadsheets Brands market (1993):
1. Microsoft Excel in Office 32%,
2. Lotus 1-2-3 27%,
3. Microsoft Excel 17%,
4. Borland Quattro Pro 15%,
5. Lotus 1-2-3 in Smart Suite 5%.

Top 5 Software Brands worldwide (1993):
1. Microsoft Office for Windows 18.3%,
2. Microsoft Word for Windows 15.1%,
3. Word Perfect for Windows 14.5 %,
4. Microsoft Excel for Windows 10.8%,
5. Lotus 1-2-3 for DOS 9.5%.

The first 4X CD-ROM drives on the market.

Gateway is the first computer manufacturer to introduce VESA systems.

PA-RISC from Hewlett-Packard became the biggest selling RISC processor on the market

Sun Microsystems ships SuperSPARC processor.

Power PC 601 processor developed by IBM and Apple offers 64-bit address bus, 32-bit data bus, 80 MHz clock speed, 2.8 mil. transistors and can address 4 Gb memory.

600,000 Sun's Solaris based workstation installed worldwide.

Intel introduces in March the first microprocessors from the 5-th generation called Pentium 60 and Pentium 66.

Over 166 million of microprocessors have been sold in this year, and over 2 billion microcontrollers ( a type of processors used in machines)

Computer Systems Sales Worldwide (share of the market 1993):
1. Personal Computers 54.9%,
2. Mainframes 17.6%,
3. Midrange Computers 17.4%,
4. Workstations/Supercomputers 10.1%

CPU Global Market (1993):
1. 486DX = 32.1%,
2. 486SX = 28.5%,
3. 386 = 25.9%,
Others = 13% (Pentium = 0.5%)

Global Computer Hardware Market (1993):
1. USA 61%,
2. Japan 30%,
3. Europe 8%.

30% of the US households have a computer.