Apple's press release announced that Claris will cease being Apple's software outlet and will become FileMaker, Inc., fo

cusing only on its highly successful and cross-platform FileMaker Pro database software. The remainder of Claris' products, including the Mac OS and ClarisWorks, will be re-absorbed into Apple.

The latest reports of CompUSA/Apple stores under construction are: Greensboro, NC (Mike Skultety), Grand Rapids, MI (Dan Knight), Honolulu (Steve Fox), Mt. Laurel, NJ (Ed Youse) and Maryland Heights, MO (Jason Martin). Please keep up the reports to me so that the CompUSA Watch Page! is complete and up to date.

From Eric Bennett, MacSlack 1.0 estimates the amount of disk space that can be saved with the new HFS+ Apple Extended Format.

Bill Gates fingers the press for treatment that caused Microsoft to settle the contempt case. He defends as reasonable Microsoft's offering a non-working version of Windows 95 in response to the preliminary injunction.

APS Technologies forced into Chapter 11 bankruptcy by Micropolis' shutdown. Facing a cash flow problem, APS will still operate its mail order business as usual according to MacWEEK.

Dan Knight's Low End Mac compares the G3 CPU upgrade cards.

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