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All of the following software can be found on the PC User Offline CD-ROM
As you can see from this new style folder view, when you unleash Internet Explorer 4.0 Platform Preview on your Desktop you get an operating system overhaul as well as an all-new browser. However, you may also unleash system instability and a raft of other problems if you're not prepared to deal with software that is very much in the testing phase.
Platform Preview: Be warned!
In April, Microsoft released a "Platform Preview" of Internet Explorer 4.0. This product is not only a major upgrade to the IE browser, it also does a complete makeover of your Windows 95 interface.
If you've been tempted to download it (all 11Mb worth in the smallest version 20Mb with all the interesting add-ons) you should keep firmly in mind who the release is intended for. Firstly, this release is absolutely guaranteed to have bugs -- nice big ones that will crash your system. That's because its sole purpose is to give software developers a chance to assess the lay of the land as far as the next release of Internet Explorer. It's not intended to be used as your only browser, nor on your only machine. It's not intended to be a 100 percent robust release.
By the time you read this, Microsoft may well have issued the broader public beta version of IE 4.0. Even this version, as a beta, will have bugs and shouldn't be installed by the faint of heart.
On the other hand, IE 4.0 is definitely the coolest and most fascinating thing to happen since the release of Windows 95 in August 1995. So, if you have the confidence and backup to play with it, you can download it from www.microsoft.com/ie/ie40/download/ or -- a much better deal -- grab it from this month's PC User CD-ROM.
Read what Microsoft says about this preview version of IE 4.0
On the PC User Offline
CD-ROM the version of IE 4.0 provided is unfortunately
incomplete
Click here to download missing files for IE 4.0 from our June CD or you can wait for the July CD where we promise to include it again in working order.
URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 9/10
Microsoft recommends that users of version 3.0 upgrade to this minor upgrade/bug fix. An excellent Web browser which surpasses Netscape -- but only just -- in terms of ease of use. See our Guide to Choosing a Web browser for more details.
Netscape Navigator 3.01
URL: http://www.netscape.com
Rating: 9/10
Just pipped by Internet Explorer in terms of ease of use, but there are still plenty of reasons to stay with this excellent, marketing leading Web browser. See our Guide to Choosing a Web browser for more details.
Netscape Communicator (preview release 2)
URL: http://www.netscape.com
Rating: N/A
This preview edition of the next version of Netscape will give you a taste of what's to come. Be warned though that this is still a beta product.
PaintShop Pro 4.12
URL: http://www.jasc.com
PaintShop Pro has always been our favourite graphic file viewer and converter, but in this latest version, PaintShop Pro is now a comprehensive graphics package and virtually a must for anyone getting into Web page authoring. It lets you view, create and save graphics in the GIF and JPG formats common on the Web, and provides image manipulation tools that'll let you grab a photo or other image and edit it to your heart's content. See our Guide to Web authoring tools.
RealAudio
URL: http://www.realaudio.com/products/player2.0.html
Web plug-in that gives you live AM-radio like sound over
the Net with your browser. See our guide to Using
RealAudio for more information.
Macromedia Shockwave
URL: http://www-1.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/Plugin/plugin.cgi
Web plug-in that adds mind-blowing animation, sound and interactivity to Web pages. See our Guide to Plug-ins for more information. Or just check out the menu bar above to see an example of it in action.
WinZip 6.2
URL: http://www.winzip.com
Rating: 9/10
The award-winning shareware utility WinZip is our perennial favourite for unzipping and zipping files under Windows. This new version includes built-in support for popular Internet file formats: TAR, gzip, Unix compress,UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, and MIME. It also includes WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition. See also our guide on How to Use WinZip.
Eudora Lite 3.01
Freeware Internet e-mail program which is easy to use and popular, chosen by many ISPs as part of their software package to users. Power e-mail users will want the commercial `Pro' version, however. See our guide to Choosing E-mail Software for more details.
The Windows version of this very popular Comms program.
Install Telix for
Windows now
\tools\win31\telix\setup.exe
Internet Explorer 3.02a
URL:
http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 
The next best thing to IE 3.01 for Windows 95. A new version for Windows 3.1. This is default browser being used on our CD.
Netscape Navigator 3.01
URL:
ftp://ftp-au.netscape.com/pub/navigator/3.0/
Rating:
The latest version of this popular Web browser.
PaintShop Pro 3.11
URL:
http://www.jasc.com
PaintShop Pro has always been our favourite graphic file viewer and converter, but in this latest version, PaintShop Pro is now a comprehensive graphics package and virtually a must for anyone getting into Web page authoring. It lets you view, create and save graphics in the GIF and JPG formats common on the Web, and provides image manipulation tools that'll let you grab a photo or other image and edit it to your heart's content. See our Guide to Web authoring tools.
RealAudio
URL: http://www.realaudio.com/products/player2.0.html
Web plug-in that gives you live AM-radio like sound over the Net with your browser. See our guide to Using RealAudio for more information.
Macromedia's Shockwave
URL: http://www-1.macromedia.com/Tools/Shockwave/Plugin/plugin.cgi
Web plug-in that adds mind-blowing animation, sound and interactivity to Web pages. See our Guide to Plug-ins for more information.
WinZip 6.2
URL:
http://www.winzip.com
Rating:
The award-winning shareware utility WinZip is our perennial favourite for unzipping and zipping files under Windows. This new version includes built-in support for popular Internet file formats: TAR, gzip, Unix compress,UUencode, XXencode, BinHex, and MIME. It also includes WinZip Self-Extractor Personal Edition. See also our guide on How to Use WinZip.
Eudora Lite 3.01
Freeware Internet e-mail program which is easy to use and popular, chosen by many ISPs as part of their software package to users. Power e-mail users will want the commercial `Pro' version, however. See our guide to Choosing E-mail Software for more details.
Internet Explorer 3.02
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 9/10
Microsoft recommends that users of version 3.0 upgrade to this minor upgrade/bug fix. An excellent Web browser which surpasses Netscape -- but only just -- in terms of ease of use. See our Guide to Choosing a Web browser for more details.
Telix
for DOS v 3.51
The most recent version of this venerable and very popular DOS mode comms programs.
All of the the following programs can be found in the \Tools\Mac folder on the CD.
Netscape Navigator 3.01
URL: http://www.netscape.com
Rating: 9/10
For the Mac users out there we offer Netscape Navigator as a compressed self-executing HQX file.
Internet Explorer 3.0
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/ie/ie.htm
Rating: 9/10
Microsoft's browser now finally released for the Apple Mac in Version 3.0.
Eudora Lite
Freeware Internet e-mail program which is easy to use and popular, chosen by many ISPs as part of their software package to users. Power e-mail users will want the commercial `Pro' version, however. See our guide to Choosing E-mail Software for more details.
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