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To: Spartex who wrote (6588)	5/6/1998 5:27:00 PM
From: Maverick	of 74651

Navigator to lose Win98 speed war By Andy Eddy and John Cox Network World, 5/4/98 Netscape Communications Corp. already expects a tough battle against Microsoft Corp.'s upcoming Windows 98, with its built-in browser. But what it might not be prepared for is the dramatic performance edge Microsoft may have in the Windows 98 browser space. Based on interviews and hands-on experience, it has become clear that Microsoft's integration of the Internet Explorer (IE) browser into the operating system lets the browser start up faster, often a lot faster. Netscape could get a respite if the U.S. Department of Justice, or the cabal of individual states reportedly banding against Microsoft, delay the release of Windows 98. But that action is far from certain. A producer at a major game publisher in Northern California believes IE benefits by having many of its resources load up along with the rest of the operating system at boot up. ''Clearly the start-up is enormously faster on IE than on Navigator. It's probably prelaunching, precaching and pre-everything,'' he said. The Microsoft speed edge doesn't just stop with Internet Explorer under Windows 98, but extends to the experiences some users have with various NT betas as well.

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