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Windows 98 Makes the Internet Connection Easier, Quicker.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

| June 14, 1998 | Wilson, David L. | COPYRIGHT 1998 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 14--If you connect your computer to the Internet, you'll probably want to upgrade to Windows 98.

While Microsoft Corp. has built several new levels of Internet functionality into this latest offering, most of the changes are ho-hum at best. At worst, they're damned annoying.

But the company has made a genuine effort to improve the guts of its Internet connection software, and it shows. An Internet connection running through Windows 98 works faster than an Internet connection running through Windows 95.

Not that this is saying a whole lot. Microsoft engineers freely concede the Win 95 Internet connectivity ...

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