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by Vade Forrester

Vade Forrester, a quality consultant for the Air Force, is a former President of Alamo PC and currently co-chair of the Windows 95 and Microsoft Office special interest groups. News Scan, his monthly column for PC Alamode Magazine, covers emerging trends in computer technology.

January, 1999 Faster PC processors will become available San Antonio will get truly fast Internet access Affordable color laser printers will be closer to reality Microsoft will ship Windows 2000 Voice recognition will not become fully functional New office suites will still be hard to use Viruses continue to proliferate Flat screen monitors will drop in price Digital cameras will drop in price Universal Serial Bus will take off

September, 1998 Universal Serial Bus

May, 1998 New Intel Chips Sizzle, Fizzle Pentium II notebook computers  Speed-up chips speed up Bill Gates gets richer Want to match Bill’s cash? Microsoft gives away Outlook 98 Lotus upgrades Organizer More PCs at home New tape standard LCD desktop display drop in price Optical data storage

March, 1998 Chips Rev Up Digital announces 600 MHz Alpha chip  Intel ships 333-MHz Pentium II  Slot 2  No wonder it's so slow  Outlook 98 to include Winfax technology  Stolen computer registry

February, 1998 Intel Pentium II Debut Marred by Bug PC World Reliability Survey Quantum Drive is Huge, Slow Seagate Drive is Huge, Fast At Last: Erasable CD-ROMs Pioneer 24X CD-ROM drive U.S. Robotics Vanishes

June, 1997 Intel Pentium II Debut Marred by Bug PC World Reliability Survey Quantum Drive is Huge, Slow Seagate Drive is Huge, Fast At Last: Erasable CD-ROMs Pioneer 24X CD-ROM drive U.S. Robotics Vanishes

May, 1997 Intel's Klamath Chip Gets Name, Slows Down Is there a 56kBps modem in your future? Or now? DVD at last! Even faster CD-ROMs Iomega Zip drives replacing floppies? Windows 95 (97? 98?) Internet Explorer 4.0 delayed again Bigger hard drives coming

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