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PR: Object Desktop Professional Generally Available!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wardell@ibm.net)
Sun Sep 22 06:38:57 1996
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Date: 11 Sep 1996 03:32:16 GMT
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Object Desktop Professional Available!
Stardock's New Flagship product in channels
Monday, September 8, 1996
Contact: Alexander Antoniades Stardock Systems, Inc. (313)453-0328
Canton MI -- Stardock Systems, a leading developer of software for IBM's OS/2
announced that its new flagship product, Object Desktop Professional, is now
generally available through its reseller channels.
Object Desktop Professional contains all the features of the best-selling
Object Desktop plus corporate-centric features such as universal document
viewing, security, desktop standardization, backup, INI repair, internet help
integration, and a lot more.
"With Object Desktop, OS/2 users were able to add features that most people
wanted onto their systems. With Object Desktop Professional, we're targeting
corporate users and power users." said Brad Wardell, President, Stardock
Systems, Inc.
Stardock expects most users to stay with Object Desktop with power users and
corporate desktops moving to Object Desktop Professional. Object Desktop
Professional is likely to attract professionals who did not migrate to Object
Desktop.
"The Object Viewing feature is extremely helpful to us," said Glenn Meadows of
Masterphonics. "Our users can now trade documents of any type and not worry
whether they have the application. We can just copy and paste the data from
the view window or print directly from the file with the correct formatting
preserved."
With Object Viewing, Stardock integrated most of the common file formats into
OS/2 itself making Object Desktop Professional very attractive for
corporations running a mixed set of applications.
One of Object Desktop Professional's most impressive features is the Object
Advisor. Object Advisor integrates on-line help into the internet/intranet
world via HTML. When a user clicks on an icon with the Advisor trainer opened,
a window appears explaining what the icon does with link options to either
other HTML documents on the machine, the server, or on the internet. This
makes the Object Advisor a very powerful aid to corporations trying to reduce
the costs of maintaining a help desk or other internal technical support.
Commercial developers can also look to greatly decrease support costs by
providing advisors that allow users to link to their web sites to download
updates automatically.
Corporations or end users looking to standardize their desktop and manage
multiple desktops will also find the Desktop Backup Advisor to be essential.
Not only does it make managing desktops very easy, it also can completely
repair OS/2 INI files quickly and easily making OS/2 faster and more stable.
Other features include Object Backup which can back up systems to the network,
floppy, and external devices (such as ZIP drives and ATAPI/IDE tape drives).
Object Inspector which makes it easy to create Workplace Shell objects as well
as modify the class table, an enhanced version of the Object Navigator which
can view any type of file format within its view pane, and a host of other
features that will delight both IS managers as well as OS/2 power users.
Object Desktop Professional lists for $179. Users who own Object Desktop 1.0
can move to Object Desktop Professional for $119 and Object Desktop 1.5 users
can move up for only $69 until the end of September.
Stardock Systems can be reached at (313)453-0328, fax (313)453-1480, web site:
http://www.stardock.com, email: info@stardock.com.
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Object Desktop 1.5: Targeted for all OS/2 users.
Object Desktop Professional 1.5: Power Users, Professionals, Corporations.
Feature Comparison Between Versions:
Features:
1.0 1.5 1.5Pro Description
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Alt-Tab Task Switching x x x Easy switching between Prgs
Browse Mode x x x Sub-flds update existing win
Control Center x x x Virtual Desktops, per mon.
Enhanced Folders x x x Status bar, visual enh
Enhanced Window List x x x Intuitive task list
HyperCache x x x Speeds up OS/2
HyperDrives x x x Speeds up WPS
Keyboard LaunchPad x x x Hot keys for programs
Object Archives x x x ZIP, LZH, etc. act like folders
Object Navigator x x x File manager
TabLaunch Pad x x x Launch programs easily
Window Close Button x x x One button close
Enh Master Setup Object x x Manages overall system
Object Package x x Distribute OS/2 objects/dtps
Performance Improvements x x OS/2 faster than OS/2 alone
Rollup Button x x "Window shades"
Stardock Internet Shell x x Hundreds of websites
Object Navigator 1.5 x x Multiple drive access
Internet integrated help x HTML enabled help system
System Backup x Backup to tape, floppy, zip
Object Inspection x Modify OS/2 objects
Security x Secures the workplace shell
Universal File Viewing x View/Print type of file
Automatic INI Repair x Makes OS/2 faster, stabler
Class Table Editing x A "registry" editor
Object Scheduler x Have prgs run at set times
Multiple Desktop Management x Manage packaged desktops
Enh Object Navigator x File Viewing integrated
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