Word: browsers
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...content with his achievements to date, Bill Gates seems to want another title on his resume: Pioneer of the Web browser. In an interview with the Seattle Times, printed Sunday, the Microsoft CEO announces that he came up with the idea on an April 5, 1994 executive retreat: "I said, 'Hey, we're going to get (the browser) integrated with the operating system,' " Gates claims. Which, if true, would be extraordinarily convenient. It would prove that Microsoft Explorer and Windows were always intended to be one product, contrary to the Justice Department's claims. And it would predate the establishment...
...first casualty of the browser war isn't Netscape or Microsoft--it's us. The two software companies have been releasing revisions to their Internet browsers at a hellish pace, leapfrogging each other with new features so quickly that the things aren't adequately debugged. And now we learn that for the past year, their free e-mail programs have contained a dangerous defect that allows any bad guy to send e-mail that can crash your computer. (It's so easy, even...
...away from any grove of academe. Some are learning from videotapes, while others watch satellite lectures. But these methods of distribution are rapidly being overtaken by distance learning via the World Wide Web. Armed with a personal computer, a moderately fast modem, an Internet service provider and a Web browser, students can quickly gain access to all kinds of course material whenever they want. There are about 1,200 degree and certificate distance-learning programs available from about 900 accredited colleges, observes Karen Hansen, executive editor at Peterson's, a Princeton, N.J., education- and career- products publishing company that puts...
...today's hot Internet stocks will wind up winners, of course. Case in point: Netscape Communications, whose Navigator browser was the first commercial software to link computers to the World Wide Web. Netscape stock jumped from $28 a share to $87 when the company went public in 1995, but it sank to just $15 earlier this year. (Netscape closed at $36 last Friday in the wake of rumors that a behemoth like Time Warner might make a bid for the company. Time Warner denied that it planned to do so.) "There's a lot of momentum buying right now," says...
BILL GATES Round 1 to the technogeek; Justice-crats can't bury web browser on Windows...