Windows 98 and the Web
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Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:54:38 -0400
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 15:54:38 -0400
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Subject: Windows 98 and the Web
07/24/97 USA TODAY ONLINE
SEATTLE - Available early next year, Microsoft's new version of its Windows
95 software, called Windows 98, marks a milestone in Microsoft's drive to
imbue its flagship product with features that let people better use the
Internet.
Gates' strategy is to make Windows the most natural way to view Web pages
and run Web programs without having to launch a separate browser program.
Key to this goal: Integrating its Internet Explorer 4.0 browser, due out
this year, with Windows 98.
With Windows 98, Microsoft aims to steal more market share by going beyond
simply including Internet Explorer 4.0. Windows 98 tightly integrates the
two products in ways designed to make accessing information on the Web or
any other network as easy as accessing files on a PC's hard drive.
Turn on the PC, and the new Windows has the look of a Web browser. You can
navigate through files by simply single-clicking on highlighted items,
pointed out by a hand (Web-style) not an arrow (PC-style). Or you can
simply type in a Web address in the "task bar" at the bottom of the Windows
98 main screen, or click on items on a new "channel bar," which will
quickly open a Web site. You can even make a live Web page the background
to your main Windows 98 screen.
Few think of Windows 98 as simply a Netscape browser killer. Many PC and PC
parts makers welcome the new software. It will make it easier to install PC
devices, such as digital video disc players. It will make it easier for
companies to manage PC networks. And it likely will foster a new consumer
product. Windows 98 will let people connect a TV add-on card (expected to
cost $50 to $100) that will let a PC run TV programming from cable and
satellite companies.
By James Kim, USA TODAY
Edited for ConnTech
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