WHAT’S NEW
What is “the most dramatic and significant roll out of desktop technology since [the] first PC “? According to IBM, it’s the new NetVista family of Internet-ready PCs with flat-panel screens, designed for e-business use. In fact, IBM is following Toshiba, Gateway and others in the move to “legacy- free” PC designs, which are made more reliable by leaving out the ISA expansion bus and connection ports that IBM introduced in 1981 and 1983.
The systems will run Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional, or Windows Millennium when that becomes available.
Opera software, whose browser has long been the favourite of those who spurn the monsters from Netscape and Microsoft, has released the beta (final test) version of its of 4.0 browser. An advantage Opera is that it is more standards-compliant than others, meaning you’ve got a better chance of see-ing web pages the way they were meant to be seen. This version leaves the others standing. Get the English version from www.opera.com
Getting done in by a big do? Software company Mark Dane International has developed a software suite, Event Organiser, which takes a list of delegates and does everything from sending invitations to printing name tags and place names. Everything from organising venues to marketing and monitoring travel arrangements and budgets fits into the one software suite. md [email protected]
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