Microsoft Certifies Attachmate's EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 for Windows 95 and Microsoft Office 95 Compatibility; First and Only Host Connectivity Product to be Microsoft Certified

Business Wire, Nov 15, 1995

BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1995--Attachmate Corp., the leading supplier of software that provides universal access to corporate and Internet information, today announced that Microsoft has certified version 6.0 of EXTRA! Personal Client for Windows(R) 95 and Microsoft(R) Office 95 compatibility.

Microsoft has authorized Attachmate to display the Designed for Microsoft Windows 95 and Microsoft Office Compatible logos on this product. EXTRA! Personal Client, the industry's most innovative and complete communications package -- and the only 16 bit and 32 bit universal communications client for Windows 95, Windows NT and Windows 3.x -- is also the first and only compatible connectivity product available today for Windows 95 and the Microsoft Office 95 Suite.

"The huge and rapidly expanding user base for Windows and the Microsoft Office 95 Suite will be instantly familiar and comfortable with Attachmate's EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0," said Jim Lindner, president and CEO of Attachmate. "It offers the same look and feel, and adheres to the Windows 95 Style Guide. Dialog boxes will be the same, as will other aspects of the user interface. Customers will benefit from its ease of use, reduced time and costs for employee training, and enjoy increased user productivity."

"Attachmate's EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 is the first 32-bit connectivity product to pass testing in the Office Compatible program," said Chris Peters, vice president, Office Product Unit of Microsoft Corp. "Because EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 looks and works like Microsoft Office, customers will be able to get up to speed more quickly and, as a result, their overall productivity will increase."

"Achieving compatibility is no trivial matter, since it's difficult to do, especially with Office 95, and it presupposes compatibility with Windows 95," said Larry Zito, executive vice president of Products at Attachmate. "Attachmate has worked closely with Microsoft throughout the development of EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0. Its objective has always been to exploit the capabilities of Windows 95 and Office 95, and to leverage user familiarity with these environments. Both companies believe that the integration of EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 with Windows 95 and Office 95 will make it easier for business users to access a wide array of heterogeneous hosts."

Attachmate's EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 is the premier solution for universal enterprise access. From a single client product, it offers global host access, delivering information to any desktop from any host or network, public or private, including the Internet, mainframes, IBM AS/400, VAX and UNIX servers. EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 is also the first product that introduces the Internet paradigm of bookmarks and pages to seamlessly navigate host systems, which dramatically increases user productivity. Its powerful administration tools simplify software distribution and management. The result is a single, universal communications client that meets every Windows need.

One of the many key ingredients of EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 is OLE 2.0 automation technology, which creates transparent links between Windows documents and host documents. OLE 2.0 technology lets users drag-and-drop host data into Windows applications such as Microsoft Office, Lotus(R) SmartSuite and WordPerfect(R) Office. Users can strengthen their Windows 95 applications with public or private enterprise information with no programming required.

Price and Availability

The suggested list price for EXTRA! Personal Client 6.0 is $425 (U.S.). It includes all operating system versions in one package: 32 bit for Windows 95 and Windows NT, as well as 16 bit for Windows 3.x. The product is available now.

About Attachmate

Attachmate is the leading supplier of enterprise software that provides universal access to corporate information from any desktop over any network. The company's products enable the creation of corporate intranets, so users can access, manipulate and exchange information whether it resides within the enterprise or beyond the corporate walls on the Internet. Backed by a high level of customer service and support, Attachmate's product family includes information access and productivity-enhancing software ranging from remote access and host communication products to client/server, groupware, host-server, and software management and distribution applications. The sixth largest PC software company in the world, Attachmate employs over 2,000 people in more than 30 countries.

For more information about Attachmate's products, contact Attachmate's headquarters in Bellevue, Wash., at 206/644-4010 or toll free 800/426-6283. Attachmate's World Wide Web address is http://www.attachmate.com.

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