We plan to offer new products in the next few weeks including Windows 3.0, Windows/Word or Word 6.0 for Presentation Manager and Presentation Manager/Excel, which aims to kill 1-2-3 Release 3.0, said a high ranking Microsoft executive who preferred not be identified to the Newsbytes newswire in Paris the other day: MS-Windows 3.0 will be available in versions for 80286 and 80386 machines, but both will offer improved memory management with better usage of expanded memory, support for new graphics screens, dynamic paging and swapping, and both will support the new versions of Excel and MS-Word; and the 80386 version of Windows will also support multiple 8086 memory partitions and expanded memory support to provide memory above the 640Kb line.
