Windows Magazine
August 1997

Analysis WinLab Reviews Features NT Enterprise How To Buy How To New Products News WinTips R & R Windows on the Web Letters

Cover Story

• The Next Windows -- The long-awaited next version of Windows is on its way. WINDOWS Magazine acquired an early copy of the operating system-code-named Memphis-to provide a preview of the technologies inside the newest Windows.

Analysis

• Start / Mike Elgan
  Your New Job: Webmaster -- Let me give you some critical career advice: Learn how to create documents in HTML.
• The Explorer / Fred Langa
  Win95 SR2-for Free! -- SR2 is not wart-free, but it's functionally and cosmetically better than standard Win95.
• Windows at Work / Lou Grinzo
  Control Your Coders -- Letting a nonprogrammer modify mission-critical data is a sure way to stress-test your disaster-recovery mechanisms.
• Dialog Box / Mike Kelly
  Wanted: Code Editors -- We need a new player in the software development drama, a role for which testers have already auditioned: a code editor.

WinLab Reviews

What's Hot!


• Head to Head: 3D Video Cards
• Macromedia Director 6

  Systems
  

• Head to Head: 166MHz Notebooks
• Head to Head: 200MHz P55C MMX Desktop Systems
• Polywell Poly K6200Mx
• EPS Apex M200
• Compaq Deskpro 6000 Model 5200X/4200/PD
• Dell Latitude XPi CD M166ST
• Compaq Armada 1520DM

  Software
  

• Head to Head: Presentation Programs
• Head to Head: Search Utilities
• Colorado Backup by Cheyenne
• Head to Head: Memory Checkers
• Starfish Internet Utilities 97
• Head to Head: Web Site Management
• Jot-It 2.2
• Adobe Illustrator 7.0
• ActivePresenter 1.0
• ClientVision 4.0
• Sequel Net Access Manager 2.02
• METZ Phones 6.0

  Hardware
  

• Head To Head: Digital Cameras
• Epson Stylus Photo
• Ricoh MediaMaster
• HP LaserJet 6L and Companion printer accessory
• Ositech Five of Diamonds
• Deltec PowerRite Pro II UPS
• HP Network ScanJet 5
• Fargo Signature CD Color Printer

WinList -- A fast route to the best in hardware, software and system choices among all the products we've test.

Features

• The WINDOWS Magazine Tech Support Survey -- We found out what more than 7,500 readers really think of PC reliability and tech support. Which vendors are worthy of your business?
• The Concise Guide to PC Chips -- Do you feel like you're caught in a chip blizzard? We'll help you conquer CPU confusion and decide which chip you'll want in your PC.
• FAT32: The Big Deal About Big Disks -- Make that multigig hard drive more manageable.

NT News Trends


• Exchanging Our E-Mail -- Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 is robust, but its remote features are weak. Just ask WINDOWS Magazine's own network administrators.
• NT Security Concerns
• Ending the NT Backup Blues
• Heard in the Back Office

  NT Product Pipeline
  

• Wyse Winterm 2600SE
• Quick Restore 2.2
• QuickMail Pro Server
• NetRoad FireWALL for Windows NT and NetWare
• Diskeeper Lite
• NCR 3269
• Extra HostView Server
• NT Developer's Power Pack
• Pictorius iNet Developer

  NT Reviews
  

• Top Tools for Team Programming -- No single vendor's enterprise development suite shines, but one of them will meet your needs.

  NT Administrator/Tom Henderson
  

• You Can't Trust Those Domains -- The most-trusted relationships in your domains can crumble under certain conditions.

How To Buy

How To Buy A ...Flatbed Scanner
• Tricks, Tips and Techniques for Superior Scanning
• Scanning Stats
• Sites to Be Seen

August Highlights How To Optimizing Windows / John Woram Scrub Your PC Clean Applications / Jim Boyce Tame Your E-Mail Power Windows / Karen Kenworthy Play PC Detective Windows CE / John D. Ruley Ask CE for Directions Windows NT Workstation / Rick Furnival Share Resources via the Net Web Programming / Martin Heller Java's Got Lots of Class(es)

New Products

Digital Cameras

• Digital Cameras: Lightweight and Feature-Rich
• In Brief...Imaging Software

  Scanners
  

• Scanner Has a Billion Pluses

  Mobile Computing
  

• Compaq Armada 7700 -- Compaq's Power-Packed Portables
• Wait until July 21 to re-link Fujitsu Stylistic 1200 -- NT with the Stroke of a Pen
• U.S. Robotics PalmPilot Personal -- Personal Pilot
• In Brief...Mobile Computing
• In Brief...Desktop Systems

  Monitors
  

• Hitachi/NSA SuperScan Elite 751 -- A Big Picture in a Space-Saving Size
• Nokia Multigraph 449Xa -- See Ye, Hear Ye
• Cornerstone Color 45/101sf -- Small Package Packs High Power
• In Brief...LCD Projectors
• fyi

  Keyboards
  

• Casco IR Keypoint -- Kick Back and Work Mouse-Free
• Interlink VersaPoint Wireless Keyboard -- Reduce Cable Clutter
• Cherry 6000 -- A Multilingual Keyboard
• In Brief...Audio

  Laser Printers
  

• Minolta PageWorks -- PageWorks Provides Plenty of Printing
• Lexmark Optra SC 1275 and SC 1275n -- Optimize with Network Printers
• Brother HL-1060 -- Follow the Straight Path
• In Brief...Printing Software
• fyi

  Storage
  

• Maxtor DiamondMax 1750 -- Maxtor Drive Rolls a Lucky Seven
• Micropolis Mustang 4550A -- Mustang Drive Has Horsepower
• IBM Travelstar 5GS -- Storage On the Go
• In Brief...56K Modems

  Internet
  

• Hit List Pro 3.0 -- A Database for Everyone on Your Hit List
• E.P.I.C. -- Web Tracking in E.P.I.C. Proportions
• Anawave Gravity 1.1 -- Down-to-Earth News Reading
• In Brief...Internet
• fyi

  Graphics Software
  

• Fractal Design Painter 5 -- Keep All Your New Paint Brushes in One Can
• Adobe After Effects 3.1 -- Put On the Finishing Touches
• Squiggle 3.0 -- Turn CAD into Your Sketchpad
• In Brief...Graphics Accelerators
• In Brief...Animation Software

  Business Productivity
  

• ProVenture -- Venture Out into the Big Business World
• New Movers ConnX and SOHO ConnX -- Make Serious Business ConnXions
• Quicken Family Lawyer Deluxe -- Keep the Law On Your Side
• In Brief...PIMs
• fyi

  Utilities
  

• Conversions Plus 4.0 -- The Common Denominator of Apps
• eSafe Protect -- Defend Your Downloads
• VirusScan 3.0 and VirusScan -- Deluxe Stay PC-Clean And Virus-Free
• In Brief...Utilities
• In Brief...Security

  Programming
  

• VBAssist 5.0 -- Hire New Visual Basic Assistants
• InstallShield5 Professional -- Install It Right
• idsMail 4.0 -- Mail-Enable Your Application
• In Brief...Programming

News

Trends


• Windows CE Gets More Muscle
• Can't Beat 'em? Sue 'em!
• Top Ten Best-Selling Windows Business Software
• Recap
• Don't Fall for Monitor Sellers' 'Dot Pitch'
• Bill Gates: Five Technology Predictions
• NC Companies Try Networking
• Print Faster, Faster
• Who's Winning the Suite Wars?
• E-Commerce Firms Mean Business

  Notes from the Lab
  

• Heads Up
• What a Drag
• Blocked
• Getting More With Less
• Lock and Load
• There's a Pattern
• Do We Get Letters

WinTips

• Win95
• Active Desktop
• Web
• NT 4.0

R & R: Resources and Recreation

• Positive Thinking
• It All Adds Up
• Valhalluva Good Time
• Get Fit
• Ace in the Hole

Windows on the Web

• Breathe Life Into Your Web Site -- Animated GIFs are a fast, easy way to punch up your Web page.
• More Spam? No, Thank You!
• Cyberguide
• News Briefs
• Speedy ADSL Is Slow to Arrive
• Smut, Maybe; Pirated Software, Never!
• Check Out the Newest Windows
• Top Ten Shareware

Letters

• I Don't Want My PC TV
• Office 97 is off
• Unseen 3D
• A GUI mess
• When to draw the line
• Brand loyalty
• Corrections