Either way, Doom has been a phenomenon in the personal computer entertainment category, and may influence how other consumer software is developed, sold and used.

The group will supervise the desktop applications business, consumer software, the new on-line service, and research in fields like speech recognition.

For consumer software which may well be downloaded over a modem, this makes a big difference.

Most consumer software costs $40 to $150, and often everything you need is bundled in a single suite.

The company also reported strong sales of its general business programs, consumer software and networking software.

Most consumer software of the day was still using at least some 16-bit code, because of a variety of factors.

"It will take creative and technology partnerships to really bring the best to consumer software."

The person added that the company now has sizable businesses in consumer software and in operating systems for corporate computing.

All consumer software should be intuitive in its use, requiring neither instructions nor tutorial.

True, Expert's business - consumer software - faces a bright future.