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Sprint and Microsoft Integrate SprintFAX with Windows 95

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Sprint and Microsoft have teamed up to integrate SprintFAX with Windows 95, enabling users to send and receive faxes directly from their PC desktops. This joint effort will provide users with enhanced fax capabilities, including editable binary file documents, and is scheduled to be available in September 1995. The integration is part of Sprint's mission to provide wider access to its services from the desktop and enhance functionality required by customers.

Key Takeaways:

  • Sprint and Microsoft have integrated SprintFAX with Windows 95, enabling users to send and receive faxes directly from their PC desktops.
  • Users will be able to initiate SprintFAX broadcasts of text or graphic images and editable binary file documents using Microsoft Fax.
  • SprintFAX is the first service to be integrated with Microsoft Fax, providing users with enhanced fax capabilities.
  • The integration is scheduled to be available in September 1995 and will be showcased at the Electronic Messaging Association Conference.
  • SprintFAX will be used by businesses and organizations of all sizes to communicate to wide audiences of employees, members, customers or suppliers.
  • SprintFAX applications include informing field sales of price changes, distributing press releases, and sending product and drug recalls to retailers and distributors.
  • Sprint is a diversified international telecommunications company with over $12.6 billion in annual revenues and a nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network.
  • Microsoft wants to make the best services from leading companies available directly from the Windows 95 desktop.

Statistics:

  • Sprint has more than $12.6 billion in annual revenues.
  • Sprint's divisions provide global long distance voice, data and video products and services to over 6.4 million subscriber lines in 19 states.
  • Sprint's cellular services reach over 1 million customers in nearly 100 cities in 14 states.
  • Microsoft's Personal Systems Division has agreed to an integration with SprintFAX to make it available directly from the Windows 95 desktop.

Sources:

  • Business Wire, May 9, 1995
  • Sprint Booth #323 during the EMA Conference
  • Microsoft and Windows 95 are registered marks of Microsoft Corp.

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