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NETSCAPE ESCALATED ITS BATTLE WITH Microsoft for the soul (and wallet) of the Internet last week by quietly offering Web surfers a preview of a superbrowser, code-named Atlas. The program is designed to compete with Microsoft's Explorer, which Net users have labeled slow and short on appealing features. Though downloading Atlas was rough going (more than an hour on a 14.4 modem), patient users were treated to a program stuffed with new applications, part of Netscape's plan to outdazzle and outperform Microsoft. Below, a look inside Atlas, available at www.netscape.com...
Cool Talk Atlas includes an Internet phone that lets users make calls from their PCs. The technology, which digitizes voices and then sends the resulting bits over the Net, aims to make Atlas more essential than Windows...
Netscape Live 3D The Net is spawning new 3-D applications loaded with complex virtual-reality graphics. Netscape and Microsoft endorse different VR standards, but Atlas' easy-to-use 3-D interface may bring gamemakers into Netscape's camp...
Netscape Navigator Atlas may become Navigator 3.0 late this summer. If history is any guide, this first "alpha" release will be followed by six or seven "betas," each more stable and sophisticated than the last...
System Info Atlas may be gigantic (it's a quarter of the size of Windows 95), but it has been engineered to run faster. Test drives last week were speedy but also very crash prone--par for most alpha tests. HYPEMETER Silicon Valley's "search engine" companies are about to become the latest winners in the giddy Wall Street sweepstakes known as the high-tech I.P.O. Granted, companies like Yahoo and Excite, which use typed-in key words to guide users through the Web's sprawl, perform an important editorial service. But with minuscule profits and an uncertain future, market...