BOTHELL, Wash. Microsoft Corp.'s suburban Seattle productionplant hardly looks like the frenzy of activity that might be expectedless than a month before the biggest product launch in the softwaregiant's history.
True, workers are putting in overtime at the 265,000-square-footplant, where duplicating machines are churning out software diskettesaround the clock to meet anticipated demand for the Windows 95operating system, which goes on sale Aug. 24.
Yet a recent visit to the plant found only four people at asingle station assembling Windows 95 packages - at a steady, buthardly frenetic, pace.
On a nearby assembly line, a half-dozen workers put …
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