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To: Dermot Burke who wrote (405)	12/6/1997 8:14:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Respond to of 1600

IE and communicator each have advantages. I use both. For what I do Communicator is a little more stable probably because it isn't so resource intensive and download resumption is important to me. IE is smoother and faster, and it doesn't give me the DOS sense. Also, screen management is handled better and since MSFT writes the OS, IE is better integrated. Most of my interactive work is done on IE. They're both good and substantially better than their predecessors. I used to claim until recently that MSFT would inevitably put Windows inside IE. I expected a lot of criticism for such a meaningless claim like that, but no one ever said a word. Then I tested Active Desktop. Active Desktop does put Windows inside of IE so to speak. Management of local storage is conducted from IE. I don't go into another process, say Explorer to do that. When I downloaded IE I was suspicious when prompted about installing Active Desktop because of my long years of grief as a MSFT beta tester (me and 50 million others), so never knew what it was about. I don't use it but regardless of DOJ, MSFT will be moving towards this integration in future Windows versions. There are other SI equivalents and there are sites where the technical side is emphasized. For years Compuserve was the center of technical interactive discussion. Then AOL got into the action. I've forgotten the name of the operation that is a direct SI competitor, but the various internet news and search engines like Yahoo have forums. I talked with so many engineers on the bulletin boards and forums over the years that I discovered that what they said may be applicable to their shop, but not to mine. My guys and I had to slog it out like monkeys at a typewriter selecting all the combinatorially possible wrong ways to do things before we accidentally discovered how things work the right way. By then MSFT had changed the rules of the game again! So I stay away from technical discussions. I have lost track of the Kozinski "Bessel Function" gibberish, but I know how to sit down at a keyboard and create complex C++ or Java programs without calling someone, accessing on-line help(useless), or looking in a book. It took years to be able to do that.