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To: Spartex who wrote (6588)	5/6/1998 5:29:00 PM
From: Maverick	of 74651

Navigator to lose speed war, part II ''I have noticed that [Internet Explorer] had superior performance to some degree, mostly during initialization of the browser. I'm assuming that it is due to the tighter integration of the browser with the operating system,'' said Jason Olmstead, Internet services director at design firm Phat Media, Inc., who has been beta-testing Internet Explorer under Windows 98 and NT 5.0. He also noted that Internet Explorer under NT 5 only needed an additional 2M bytes of RAM but Netscape's Communicator 4.0 required an extra 11M bytes. However, the issue may not be limited to just loading time. A number of test sites have told Network World that Netscape browsers also seem to run much slower than IE under beta versions of NT 5.0 and Windows 98, as well as under the beta version of Windows NT Server 4.0, Terminal Server Edition. One user claimed in an e-mail to Network World that Microsoft's Winsock Dynamic Link Library isn't written to a standard API, which could bring about a erformance hit on Netscape's browser because Netscape's browser looks for a standard API. It's a claim that Microsoft strongly disputes. ''Everything we use with [Internet Explorer] is completely open and completely documented. There are no undocumented APIs that we're taking advantage of with Internet Explorer,'' said Craig Beilinson, product manager at Microsoft for Internet platforms and tools.

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