European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 26, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes computers tuesday. July 26, 1994 Microsoft corp. Wont have the new version of its windows software on Sale by the end of the. Year a top company executive said. Quot. A i think there is not a Chance that we will have the product for Sale in stores before january a Steve Ballmer Microsoft a executive vice president for sales and support told securities analysts last week it could be april the Start of Microsoft a fiscal fourth Quarter before the company starts collecting meaningful Revenue from the new product called Chicago. Microsoft May Start. Manufacturing the product before the end of the year but it will take four to seven weeks before enough copies Are widely available to. Retailers Ballmer said. The delay gives competitors a cd a acc to win Cus to m e is to t h e i r operating systems. Chicago had been expected first this Spring and then this fall. Last week Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said he hoped to have it on Sale before the end of 1994. But he said it depended on the response from tests of the software that Are now being done by 10,000 customers. Windows puts a graphical face on Microsoft a is Dos operating system a program that controls the Basic functions of a computer such As opening and closing files. Chicago is supposed to be faster and less complicated than the current windows and will be Able to run without Dos which has been around since 1981. Ballmer said the company will have a Tough time repeating the sales of windows. A a Oracle corp. May be opening a research and development Center in Southern India soon. It would be the fifth such ramp a facility for the database software specialist and the first outside the United Stales and Europe. A a. A a from wire reports mind your a Netiquette Good manners help Aid communications by John m. Moran Hartford courant for Many computer users connecting with a bulletin Board or. Joining an on line service is like visiting a foreign land the language is strange the customs mysterious and the terrain unfamiliar. / its easy to make mistakes in these circumstances just like the overseas traveler who blunders into the wrong restroom because he can to read the sign on the door. The on line world is experiencing a kind of culture Shock these Days As hordes of new users a known As a a newbies a buy modems and Start exploring. Many Are unaware that cyberspace has its own rules and conventions. They need to learn �?onetiquette.�?�. Think of Netiquette As the rules of the Road for the information Highway. The goal is to protect free speech while. Also promoting respect tolerance and Courtesy. That a a tall order in any culture. But its especially important on computer bulletin boards and networks where people can broadcast their opinions to thousands with just a few keystrokes. Indeed something about electronic messaging actually seems to Foster angry hurtful responses a known As a flames a in the language of cyberspace. People who  dream of insulting someone to their face will viciously attack their integrity in a computer message. As yet there a no electronic miss manners. But Here Are some principles you might use to guide your on line behaviour / a take some time when you re getting started to look around and see what other people Are doing. A Little observation goes a Long Way in helping newcomers avoid problems. A read the users guide to wherever you Are connecting. These guides Are usually filled with Handy information saving the bulletin Board operator from having to answer the same Basic. Questions Over and Oyer again. A be Clear and careful in what you write its easy for written messages especially those laced with sarcasm or irony to be misunderstood a remember that whether you re connected to a bulletin Board a commercial on line service like Prodigy or Compuserve or the internet you re a guest in somebody else a Domain. Act like one. A done to capitalize your entire message. In the on line Community this is viewed As shouting is considered rude and is a sure sign of a Greenhorn. A. A a put messages in the proper topic area. There a nothing quite so via burial ing is having your Reading of sports messages inter rented by a message about immigration. A a keep Public messages Short and to the Point. Your sister May be Happy to. A amps Peter Jaeger read a six Page account of your trip to the grand Canyon but everybody else will be satisfied with a couple of paragraphs. A use a civil tone in writing messages. Not Only is it the courteous thing to do but hostile messages reflect poorly on the author. And obviously avoid obscenity and profanity. A be kind when other people make mistakes you could be next this Netiquette guide is by no Means comprehensive but at least its a starting Point for those beginning to explore the on line universe. Finally done to let All these rules. Intimidate you. The  is generally a Friendly place where people Are willing to help newcomers and honest mistakes Are tolerated. After All everyone was a new user at some Point. Death toll rises to 52 in Buenos Aires blast Buenos Aires Argentina a six More bodies were pulled from the rubble of a destroyed jewish Community Center sunday raising the deat h toll in the july 18 blast to at least 52. Dozens More Are still missing after the explosion that injured 206 people and levelled the so Van Story building. American israeli and Argentine investigators believe the blast invoked a 220-Pound car bomb the newspaper la Nacion reported sunday. Argentina plans to ask the . Security Council to hold a special session on International terrorism according to the newspaper Clann. A group in Lebanon calling itself Ansar Iiah or partisans of god has claimed responsibility for the attack and suggested that it also blew up a panamanian commuter plane last tuesday the plane was carrying 21 people. 12 of whom were jewish businessmen. Quot meanwhile Israel said a Man kidnapped Friday by israeli soldiers in Lebanon was not suspected of involvement in the  Man was linked to the pro iranian Hezbollah Gucci Ila group which is also suspected in the Buenos Aires bombing but he had nothing to do with the attack. A Ira ally fails to endorse peace talks letter Kenny Ireland apr sinn fein the iras political ally has refused to approve a British Irish offer 1.0 hold peace talks on Northern Ireland but the party a Leader insisted it is a a totally committed to winning  ,. A a a the sinn fein parly did not Call for the Irish Republican army to cease its guerrilla War against British Rule in Northern Ireland which both Britain and Ireland have said is mandatory before they will Deal with sinn fein. The next step toward peace according to a vague sounding motion passed by the 800 delegates during. Their one Day conference sunday was to build on the British Irish offer with further negotiations. The two governments expressed disappointment sunday although Irish prime minister Albert Reynolds said he detected some a positive signals from sinn fein. A. A the Only Way to solve the outstanding problems is by political debate within the democratic process a he said. A what is essential now is that All paramilitary organizations should Stop the killing and end All Community strife.�?�. Meanwhile he said Ireland and Britain would press. Ahead with preparations for negotiations with other parties in Northern Ireland. Sundays meeting in. Letter Kenny a resort town in county Donegal was held to debate what sinn fein called its definitive response to the declaration made seven months ago by Reynolds and British prime min. Ister John major. The declaration offers sinn la Ein a place in negotiations on the future of Northern Ireland once the Ira has agreed to a permanent cease fire. A motions adopted sunday repeatedly criticized the British Irish declaration s formula of accepting any settlement approved by a majority of people in Northern Ireland where pro British protestant a a unionists Are the majority. A unionists cannot have a veto Over British policy or Over political Progress in Ireland a said one such motion. Sinn fein which draws about 10 percent of the vote in Northern Ireland believes the provinces future should be worked out by All the people of Ireland which would give catholics an overwhelming majority. That Issue is at the Core of a Century of violence and Contention in Ireland the refusal of protestants in tire North to join in an Independent Ireland led to the creation of Northern Ireland in the 1920s. Us Borders were drawn to ensure it had a protestant  Adams took pains not to reject the peace Decla ration entirely. A despite the inadequacies of the declaration the potential to build upon a real peace process still exists a Adams said in his closing speech. A we Are totally committed to winning