With its emphasis on communications tools that increase productivity, "Communicator Professional Edition" is ideally suited for collaboration and dissemination of timely information in the corporate environment. The book is filled with real-world techniques and examples to increase productivity and ease workgroup collaboration.

More than 75 percent of all people browsing the World Wide Web use Netscape, in part because of the program's many powerful features. Netscape 2.0, the browser's just-released major upgrade, offers even more features - all of which are fully explained in this new Visual QuickStart Guide. Using the VQS series' proven rich graphical approach, the book helps readers go from installing the software to using its advanced capabilities. Netscape 2.0's new features include a built-in emailer, a much-improved bookmark editor, support for superscript and subscript text, and a new plug-in architecture that allows seamless integration of Quicktime movies, Adobe Acrobat PDF documents, and Director multimedia presentations right into Web pages. For those building their own Web pages, for whom Netscape is the overwhelming application of choice, Netscape 2.0 includes dozens of improvements - ensuring that the Netscape 2: Visual QuickStart Guide will appeal to that growing group as well.

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NT as an Operating System Microsoft developed Windows NT as an alternative to Unix. The company sees it as a part of its overall Enterprise Computing plan.It scales up from basic 486 systems to high-end RISC sys tems from companies like Digital, NEC,and PCvendors offering PowerPC systems for NT. The basic operating system consists of a user interface shell (similar in appearance to Windows 3.1 for NT 3.1 to 3.5, and changing to look and feel more like Windows 95 for NT 4.0) de signed to run 32-bit programs. This makes it ideal for the multi media nature of Web browsers, and for the heavy-duty require ments of a Web server. There are a number of elements in the as that are special to NT. These include the control panelsand administrativesupport tools relating to NT's services and support mechanisms. TCP/IP is included for Internetaccess throughtraditional networks.You can also connect from Windows NTWorkstation via MS Remote Access to any Internet Access Providersupporting PPP. Basic requirements for Windows NT Workstation are a 486 system with at least 8 MB of RAM, although 16 MB is recom mended. The client software needed to connect to a corporate server is included, as is the Remote Access software mentioned earlier. 1. Introduction FIGURE 1.1. NT4.0 operating system.

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With this book in hand, readers get all the knowledge needed to master the many components of Netscape Communicator while enjoying the same fun and no-nonsense style found in Pfaffenberger's previous Netscape Navigator books. The book is filled with tips and tricks that all levels of users, from beginners to intermediates, will find helpful and interesting.

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