New Microsoft browsers integrate functions. (Internet Explorer 3.0 and 4.0)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, July, 1996 by Pasher, Victoria Sonshine

Independent agents, insurers and risk managers may have certain basic technological skills down pat, but upcoming software technology may change the face of business computing as the world knows it once again this year. Microsoft Corp. said it will be releasing new versions of a browser for the World Wide Web of the Internet, called Internet Explorer (IE) 3.0 and IE 4.0.

According to the New York Times, which published a front-page article on July 22 on the implications of this soon-to-be-released Microsoft software, these new technologies, particularly Version 4.0, "would bring the most fundamental change to personal computers since the machines were invented in the 1970s." The National Underwriter has confirmed with a Microsoft representative in an interview...

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