New IE beta available.

[Tony Barry]

At 2:43 PM 15/7/97, Bill Drew wrote:

>I got this message earlier today about the new Internet Explorer beta.
>I downloaded and it is great!!  If they keep going in the direction they
>are I will change from using Netscape as my default browser.
>


>From EDUPAGE -

>MICROSOFT EXPLORER DISCOVERS ... WINDOWS!
>The new test version of Microsoft's Explorer software for browsing the World
>Wide Web will be more closely coupled with the company's Windows95 operating
>system, with Explorer to be embedded directly into what Microsoft calls the
>"active desktop" of the computer screen.  The information and entertainment
>that will be delivered through "channels" available on the desktop will come
>from 250 companies, including Warner Brothers, Disney Online, CBS,
>Sportsline, the Discovery Channel, ESPN Sports Zone, the New York Times, and
>the Wall Street Journal. A Microsoft executive boasts that this new
>development "will bring millions of new people to the Internet," whereas an
>executive with rival Netscape argues:  "This is a scheme that Microsoft has
>cooked up to tie users in to Internet Explorer.  The key anticompetitive
>issue is that the user doesn't get to choose.  They trick the user into
>using Internet Explorer when the user doesn't want to."  (New York Times 15
>July 97)

Tony

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