Word: browser
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Microsoft and Netscape continue to fight a jihad,with each side making their browser products more powerful and feature-laden. Today's browsers do far more than surf the Web; they contain integrated e-mail and news clients, push technologies like Active Desktop and Netcaster and include real-time audio conferencing capabilities...
...that these expanded features require larger, more complex code that takes more horsepower to run. Versions 4 of Netscape and Microsoft's Internet Explorer require an extraordinary investment in CPU power and memory to run properly, if at all. And even when a user coaxes his or her browser to run, frequent system crashes and slow performance become the norm...
Even with these small drawbacks, Opera 3.1 is an astonishing product and an amazing achievement. Keep Netscape or IE around when you just have to check out that Java-based millennium count-down timer, but for the daily Web surfing needs of real power users, there is no better browser than Opera, period...
Most Web sites at Harvard seem to focus on the person and their immediate friends. Many pages have dead ends--no place to go but to press the back button on your browser--and lack characteristics that might make them unique...
...Washington to order that Internet Explorer be extracted -- which, after this January's unbundling debacle, would not be entirely unexpected. What should worry Bill Gates is that Klein appears to have got hold of a juicy Microsoft memo with such impolitic quotes as: "We should have absolutely dominant browser share in the corporate space." Did somebody say monopoly...