MCI Communications Corp is into Microsoft Corp for $10m of software, US PC Week reports. MCI is to deploy a mix of Windows NT Workstation and Windows95 on more than 50,000 desktops as part of a comprehensive three-year BackOffice licensing agreement that also covers licenses for 40,000 copies of Office Professional and use of Internet Explorer on 7,000 systems. The company currently has a mix of OS/2 and NT. It is also close to signing a joint accord with Compaq Computer Corp, Digital Equipment Corp and Microsoft for 6,000 thin clients to be used in call centers, the paper said. They would meet the new Zero Administration standard.
