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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...
Part of the fascination with fortune-telling stems from the self-centeredness deeply rooted in the Harvard psyche. We love to contemplate, if not believe in, the idea that the courses of our piddly lives are mapped in some metaphysical atlas. Besides, it's axiomatic that Harvard students love to be analyzed. We love to be the focus of any kind of attention. We're vain and probably undernoticed...