QuicKeys for Windows Gets Rave Review in Chicago Sun-Times; First Public Beta Version Available Now

Business Wire, Oct 9, 1998

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESSS WIRE)--Oct. 9, 1998--CE Software, Inc. today announced that QuicKeys for Windows, its revolutionary new PC automation software, earned 9 1/2 of a possible 10 points in a Chicago Sun-Times review published today. CE Software also announced that the first public beta version of QuicKeys for Windows is now available for download from its Web site.

"QuicKeys can automate literally anything you do using your mouse, your keyboard and your PC, no matter how long or how many steps the task takes," said computer expert and columnist Don Crabb in the Sun-Times review. "No layer navigation, no selecting and clicking. Just getting your work done faster."

QuicKeys functions by watching and recording the steps involved in any time-consuming or repetitive computer task. Once the steps are recorded, QuicKeys performs the entire task quickly, easily and automatically whenever the user presses the hot key or clicks the toolbar button designated for that task.

The result of feedback from thousands of people who tested the preview version released in August, the beta features nearly 300 individual improvements, including: -- Enhanced recording and playback of multi-step sequences -- Support for switching between programs in a single sequence -- Increased reliability and compatibility with popular computer

programs -- Improved operation under Windows NT 4.0 -- Complete documentation and a revised online help system -- Easier placement and editing of toolbar icons -- More intuitive arrangement of Setup Wizards by the type of task

they automate -- Improved support for conditions in sequences -- More flexibility in how and where keyboard, timer and QuicKeys

Menu triggers are assigned

Beta tester Tim Maloy, a software developer at EnigmaSolve in Akron, Ohio, said: "It works great. Nothing else I know of on the Windows platform performs this well."

CE Software encourages beta testers to provide feedback via E-mail or the Web. The Web site also includes links to a newsgroup dedicated to QuicKeys for Windows and to an online survey about the product.

Pricing and Availability

QuicKeys for Windows is $49.95 and will be available beginning in November direct from CE Software at (800) 523-7638, where advance orders are being taken now. QuicKeys for Windows will also be available through national distributors Ingram Micro and Merisel, from leading mail-order catalogs such as PC Connection and PC Warehouse, from software resellers, and via the Internet at www.quickeys.com.

CE Software, Inc.

For more than a decade, CE Software, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CE SOFTWARE HOLDINGS, INC. (NASDAQ SC Symbol: CESH), has developed automation utilities and E-mail software that saves time and effort for millions of Microsoft Windows 95/98, Windows NT and Mac OS users. For more information: (515) 221-1801 or www.cesoft.com.

(c) Copyright CE Software, Inc. All rights reserved. CE Software, CE and the CE Software logo are trademarks of CE Software, Inc. QuicKeys is a registered trademark of CE Software, Inc. All other brand or product names are trademarks of their respective owners.

To download QuicKeys for Windows beta: http://www.quickeys.com